I Built a RAG Tool Over My Own Writing—Here’s What I Learned

I built a RAG tool over my own writing. Here's what I learned.

A note: I built this with Claude Code doing the implementation, directed by me. Worth being explicit about that, since it's the more honest version of what "I built this" means here. The architecture, the schema design, the chunking and retrieval decisions, and the judgment calls throughout were mine. The Python was typed by an agent I was steering.

I've spent the last several months writing about agentic AI, multi-agent coordination, governance. All from the outside. Research, reading, synthesis. Real work, but not the same as building the thing.

So I built something. A retrieval-augmented Q&A tool over my own published essays. Ask it a question, it retrieves the relevant excerpts from my blog, HackerNoon, IBM Think, wherever, and answers grounded in what I actually wrote, with citations back to the source.

This is the log...

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