How I Built an AI Chat That Speaks As Me

The idea My portfolio site is a fairly standard one — it shows who I am, what I've built, and where I've worked. But it always felt passive. Someone lands on it, reads through the timeline, and leaves. No conversation, no depth beyond what fits on a page. I wanted to change that. What if a visitor could just ask ? "Has MJ worked with AI before?" "What was his biggest project?" "Does he have team leadership experience?" Instead of hunting through paragraphs, they'd get a direct, conversational answer, as if they were talking to me. That's the idea: an "Ask MJ" chat widget, powered by AI, that answers in first person as me , grounded in real content about my career. The architecture: RAG in plain English I chose RAG . It sounds complex but the concept is simple: Store your knowledge — take a document about yourself (in my case, a Markdown file with my full work history, skills, projects, and even performance review highlights and hobbies :) and break it into chunks. Embed each chunk as a