The takeaway: I think you, too, should build a RAG. Yes, you, the non-technical journalist who reads our Substack because you are trying to learn about Al, but are intimidated by the idea of coding (we see you, you're welcome here). A lot of good (or "more accurate and specific") uses of LLMs right now amount to systems thinking — and journalists are really good at this when we apply it to social, political, and economic systems. Going through the process of building, and troubleshooting, a basic RAG can teach you about how to apply that mindset to structuring a knowledge-base for information synthesis by an LLM, and how the knowledge you are already sitting on in your newsroom could be valuable in new ways in the Al-information age. And you can try it without writing code. I asked Claude Code to plan, build, and test this with me — I served as a project manager while the AI wrote the code. It's
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