Richard Thomchick

About

Senior Product Manager building AI products. This site documents a six-month journey from zero AI experience to shipping production tools.

Each week I built something real — RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems, evaluation frameworks — and wrote about what I learned along the way. The goal was never to become an engineer. It was to understand AI deeply enough to make better product decisions and work more effectively with technical teams.

The journal entries are honest about what broke, what I misunderstood, and where the sophisticated approach turned out to be the wrong one. That's where the useful learning happened.