Issue 32: Doing That Google RAG

AGI, File Search, VS Code, Albert & Claude

Author

Mike Murphy
November 14, 2025

🗞️ AI News of The Week: Google File Search for RAG

Google’s announced their new Gemini API File Search:
It is a built-in RAG tool that lets you upload documents like PDFs, notes, code files, and have Gemini automatically index, chunk, and search them. When you ask a question, it retrieves the most relevant pieces of your files and uses that context to give grounded, accurate answers. It basically gives you a personal, searchable knowledge base powered by Gemini, without needing your own vector database or custom pipeline.

I built a RAG system locally on my machine to test it out and it’s incredible. I can upload any file I want and it chunks it up, embeds it, stores it in a vector store and I can ask it anything I want. “What is the keyboard shortcut for…?”


🧠 AI Term of The Week: AGI

AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is an AI system that can understand, learn, and perform any intellectual task a human can, at a similar or better level.
Not just coding or summarizing or making cool looping textures in After Effects…everything.

AGI is the big boss man of AI…the one people write sci-fi movies about.

  • General. It can jump between tasks the way you do: write an email, cook dinner, troubleshoot, and design a logo without needing to be retrained.

  • Learns on its own. It improves itself, adapts, and figures things out the way humans do.

  • Not here yet. We have strong AIs that are amazing at specific things (like LLMs), but true AGI, human-level versatility is still a future milestone.

đź’¬ Quote of the Week:

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“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

– Albert Einstein

🧰 AI Tool of The Week: VS Code

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is an open-source, free code editor from Microsoft that’s become the go-to workspace for developers (and me) and pretty much anyone working with AI tools. VS Code is a supercharged text editor where you can write code, run scripts, manage projects, use terminals, and plug in AI assistants like Claude Code or ChatGPT. It’s fast, customizable, and works with almost every language or workflow, making it the perfect “home base” for experimenting, building small automations, or learning to code without feeling overwhelmed.

Turn natural language prompts into fully functional, deployable, AI-native applications in true prompt-to-product fashion.


đź›  What I Made: How To Install Claude Code Extension in VS Code

Description:
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install the Claude Code Extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

🤖 What You'll Learn

  • How To Confirm Claude Code is installed

  • How To Install Claude Code using Terminal

  • How To Install Claude Code Extension in VS Code

  • How To Launch Claude Code

  • How To Switch To Terminal

  • How To Use Claude Code Features


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