This is Part 2 of a series where I build trip-pal, a RAG-powered travel assistant, from scratch. In Part 1 we built the foundation — loading a travel guide, chunking it, embedding it, and storing it in ChromaDB. By the end of Part 1 we had a working bot that could answer questions about Stockholm based on a…

I’ve been learning AI engineering in public — no hype, just honest exploration. This is the first post in a series where I build trip-pal, a RAG-powered travel assistant, from scratch. Why a travel assistant? Simple — I wanted to pick a domain that most people can relate to, so you can focus on learning…