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Ask the Anthropologist: My 2026 Portfolio 🚀

New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge Submission

[This is a submission for the New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge Presented by Google AI]

(https://youtu.be/r0u48EGViAQ)

About Me
I am a Cultural Anthropologist and AI Builder exploring the "Modern Obsidian Route". My mission is to treat AI not as a tool we use, but as a digital infrastructure we inhabit. This portfolio is a living experiment in bridging ancient cultural frameworks with next-generation machine intelligence.

Portfolio
You can interact with my "Anthropologist in the Machine" persona directly in the embed above.

Note: If the embed doesn't load, you can visit the live app her Ask the Anthropologist https://ask-the-anthropologist-671513941607.us-west1.run.app/

How I Built It
My development process was a journey through the "voodoo" of modern web infrastructure:

The Brain: Powered by Gemini 3 Flash via Google AI Studio. I used "Build Mode" to transition from a conceptual prompt to a functional React application.

The Environment: Developed in Antigravity, Google’s AI-first IDE, where I managed the transition from local npm scripts to a cloud-native state.

The Infrastructure: Deployed as a scalable service on Google Cloud Run.

The Pivot: After facing "Port 8080" handshake errors and Tailwind v4 CSS utility conflicts, I pivoted to AI Studio’s Direct-to-Cloud deployment, which handled the containerization and port mapping automatically.

AND I anchored my development in a 'Human-Centered Approach'—using NotebookLM to synthesize my anthropological research into a visual roadmap that kept the mission clear even when the code got messy

What I'm Most Proud Of
I am most proud of the Persona Integrity. By integrating a custom System Prompt directly into the build, I've created an AI that doesn't just "chat"—it theorises. Seeing the machine explain the "Pattern That Connects" or the "Obsidian Route" to a public user confirms that we can build AI that carries a distinct human voice into the digital void.

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