Today My Portfolio Started Talking Back 👀

Today was one of those weird days.

the AI portfolio bot is technically alive now 😭

it can talk about my projects, writing, ambitions, weird philosophies, random life decisions, and somehow even picked up on things i never explicitly taught it.

repo:
https://github.com/Somay-kousis/self.so

portfolio:
https://portfolio-sable-psi-56.vercel.app

the funny part is that building the actual bot wasn't the hardest thing.

the hardest thing was finding free stuff.

free embeddings.
free vector db.
free llm.
free hosting.

every tutorial casually says "just use xyz api" and then you discover xyz wants your kidneys after the trial ends 💀

so half of the project was AI engineering and the other half was surviving the free tier ecosystem.

also ran out of Groq tokens today.

which feels poetic because the bot became smart enough to have conversations right when its brain got disconnected 😭

meanwhile:

• slight headache for days
• CG ended up lower than expected
• agentic AI starts next
• internship season is getting closer
• still have DSA waiting for me in a dark alley

but okay.

one thing at a time.

a few weeks ago i was learning what document loaders even were.

today i deployed something that can talk about me better than i can talk about myself on some days.

that's kinda cool.