I Built a Personal AI That Actually Knows My Projects (RAG + Ollama, Zero Cloud)

Description and use

How I stopped explaining my codebase to AI every session — by building a local RAG system that remembers everything.
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description: "How I stopped explaining my codebase to AI every session — by building a local RAG system that remembers everything."
published: true
tags: ai, rag, ollama, selfhosted
series: "Building in Public"
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I Built a Personal AI That Actually Knows My Projects (RAG + Ollama, Zero Cloud)

I got tired of explaining my own codebase to an AI every single session.

"Here's the architecture. Here's the README. Here's what I tried last time." Every. Single. Time.

So I b

Problem

How I stopped explaining my codebase to AI every session — by building a local RAG system that remembers everything.
---
description: "How I stopped explaining my codebase to AI every session — by building a local RAG system that remembers everything."
published: true
tags: ai, rag, ollama, selfhosted
series: "Building in Public"
---

I Built a Personal AI That Actually Knows My Projects (RAG + Ollama, Zero Cloud)

I got tired of explaining my own codebase to an AI every single session.

"Here's the architecture. Here's the README. Here's what I tried last time." Every. Single. Time.

So I b

Outcome

How I stopped explaining my codebase to AI every session — by building a local RAG system that remembers everything.
---
description: "How I stopped explaining my codebase to AI every session — by building a local RAG system that remembers everything."
published: true
tags: ai, rag, ollama, selfhosted
series: "Building in Public"
---

I Built a Personal AI That Actually Knows My Projects (RAG + Ollama, Zero Cloud)

I got tired of explaining my own codebase to an AI every single session.

"Here's the architecture. Here's the README. Here's what I tried last time." Every. Single. Time.

So I b

Evidence

I Built a Personal AI That Actually Knows My Projects (RAG + Ollama, Zero Cloud)

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