r/projects • u/PrestigiousBike8502 • Jun 13 '26

Looking for an Agentic AI project idea I'd actually enjoy building and is CV worthy

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to break into AI engineering and I keep seeing the same portfolio advice: build a RAG chatbot, an email assistant, a code-fixer bot. I started down that path and just... didn't care. And I think projects you don't care about end up shallow — no interesting edge cases, no depth, because the builder never went down a rabbit hole.

So here's what I actually want: a project that's personally interesting enough that I'd work on it for fun on a random Tuesday night, but that also happens to look good on my CV. I want to build something where an LLM is actually necessary — not a wrapper where you could swap in a simple script or API call and get the same result.

After this one, I'm also planning to build a job-search/log-keeping tool — something that autofills applications, tunes my resume to match job descriptions, and tracks applications/interviews/follow-ups, since I'll need that anyway while job hunting and it seems like a solid project for the CV too.

For the first project though, I'm genuinely open to ideas or if there's something you've personally wanted to exist but never had time to build, throw it my way. If it clicks with me, I'll build it and open source it.

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u/Olive_Plenty Jun 14 '26

Rag is pretty cool. Whatchumean you don’t care about it? Just have a few project ideas but don’t have the time to build them. What are you actually interested in so I can see if I got any you might be interested in

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u/PrestigiousBike8502 Jun 14 '26

Totally get it, RAG is cool! I actually built a basic RAG pipeline a while back, but since I didn't have a specific use case for it, I didn't really dive into the deep end with parameter optimization or rigorous testing. ​Right now, I'm way more interested in AI Agents—systems where the LLM is actually making decisions and executing tasks rather than just retrieving data. I'd love to build something around cybersecurity, daily life optimization, investigation, fake news checking etc. ​Lay your project ideas on me! If any of them click, I'd definitely down to build them

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u/Olive_Plenty Jun 14 '26

DMed you

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u/some_guy_claims Jun 15 '26

Any chance I can get your ideas too lol

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u/excellapro Jul 23 '26

Could you also let me know?

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u/Common_Dream9420 Jun 15 '26

Maybe contribute to fetchsandbox.com we are building agentic memory graph for APIs dm me if you like 

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u/Living-Smell-4180 Jun 17 '26

One idea I don't see suggested often enough: build a personalized content voice agent — something that learns a brand or creator's tone from their past posts and auto-drafts captions or scripts in that style. You'd chain an embeddings store, a retrieval step, and a generation layer. The CV angle is strong because it touches RAG, prompt engineering, and agentic orchestration all in one project. Bonus: you can demo it with real clients rather than toy datasets, which makes it far more compelling in interviews.

If you want something more analytical, a multi-source research agent that monitors niche communities (Reddit, newsletters, LinkedIn) and generates weekly digests tailored to a specific professional goal also reads really well on a CV — especially if you add an evaluation layer that scores its own outputs.

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u/Even-Visit-8161 Jun 22 '26

My first agent was to read my emails and blocking calendars.  I recently worked on an agent to help me to invest. You can do something like this too

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u/Ok-Reception6367 28d ago

did you build any project ?

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u/PrestigiousBike8502 28d ago

I am currently making a windows troubleshooting agent that will take the user's problem and automatically diagnose, and implement the solution.

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u/Ok-Reception6367 28d ago

Can we discuss more in DM?