Blog — AI Engineering by Aniket Patil

Oct 12, 2026

From Website to AI Tool: How I Published an Education MCP Connector in Claude's Directory

How I turned MPSC Planner and UPSC Planner into read-only MCP connectors for Claude and ChatGPT: architecture, strict search, answer-key isolation, resource limits and testing.

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Oct 5, 2026

8 min read

Teaching My Portfolio to Think: How I Integrated Jev for Intelligent Routing and Search

How I wired Jev — a fast, structured reasoning model — into my portfolio's MCP server to power intent classification, hybrid semantic search, and sub-second navigation decisions.

JevMCPAI Agents+4

Mar 5, 2026

12 min read

How I Integrated Firestore Chat History and Cloud Observability

A practical breakdown of how I made my AI portfolio chat stateful with Firestore and production-ready with structured cloud logging and error reporting.

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Jan 8, 2026

8 min read

Teaching Gemini to Paint: How I Built NLP-Powered Theme Switching

A deep dive into how I engineered a chat interface that lets users switch website themes using natural language commands like "Make it dark" or "I want a hacking vibe".

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Jan 7, 2026

6 min read

Static Websites Are Dead: How I Gave My Portfolio a Brain

When AI becomes a first-class user of your website. How I built an MCP-powered API layer on a serverless Next.js portfolio so AI agents can query it directly.

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Jan 1, 2026

8 min read

Migrating from AWS to Gemini: Building an Agentic RAG Portfolio

How I overcame AWS throttling limits by switching to Google Gemini 1.5 Flash, and how I transformed a simple chatbot into an Agentic RAG system that can navigate the site, toggle themes, and understand context.

GeminiRAGAgentic AI+3

Oct 13, 2025

10 min read

Building My Own RAG: AWS Models, Embeddings, and CloudWatch Logs

A comprehensive guide on implementing a custom RAG system using AWS Bedrock models, Titan embeddings, and comprehensive logging with CloudWatch. Learn about the architecture, challenges, and performance optimizations.

AWSRAGBedrock+4

Mar 15, 2024

5 min read

My AWS Journey: How I Cleared AWS Cloud Practitioner (CCP) in One Month

My journey to clearing the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification in just one month. Learn about my study strategy, resources used, and tips for success.

AWSCertificationCloud+1

Feb 20, 2024

6 min read

Duolingo: A 500-Day Language Learning Journey – A Product Teardown

After 500 days of consistent learning on Duolingo, I decided to analyze what makes this app so effective at language learning.

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Jan 15, 2024

7 min read

Building RagBot: A Multimodal RAG Architecture

How we designed a scalable RAG chatbot with multi-agent routing and vector embeddings.

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