Yesterday, an AI interviewed you.

You walked away with a briefing and one chosen task.

Today, that briefing gets a reader.

Look at the map. Problem number two:

AI can't see your files.

You know this pain already.

Uploading attachments into a chat, one by one.

Re-explaining the same context, every single time.

And some files you'd never upload anywhere anyway.

Here's the fix, and it's almost embarrassing how simple it is.

You don't bring your files to the AI.

You bring the AI to your files.

Bruno is going to live inside one folder on your computer.

Not your email. Not your desktop. Not your company systems.

One folder.

You decide what goes in, so you decide what he sees.

That folder is his body, and you're about to build it.

Why VS Code?

Fair question. And I'll be straight: it looks like a developer tool. It is one.

Here's why I chose it anyway: we'll ignore 90% of it, and the 10% we use is a mirror of what you already do all day.

Look at the picture.

Left: your folders. The same folders, the same files as your desktop.

Middle: your documents, open. Two side by side if you want.

Right: the chat. That's Bruno.

Today you juggle these three things in three different windows: folders here, files there, the AI in a browser tab — uploading attachments one by one.

In VS Code, the three become one room.

And I'll tell you how this ends, because it happened to me: within a few weeks, you'll be doing most of your work in here.

Your fifteen minutes

Honest heads-up before we start.

Today is the heaviest fifteen minutes of the week.

Installing, signing in, one password.

Boring, I know.

But you only do it once, and everything after today is the fun part.

One practical note first.

Some company laptops are locked down: nothing installs without IT's blessing.

If that's you, don't fight it. Build Bruno on your personal computer.

He's YOUR colleague, not your company's.

(Just pick task files you're comfortable keeping there. If your chosen task can't leave the office, pick your second-best task for this week and keep the first for later.)

Here we go.

1. Build the body. On your desktop, create a folder with your name on it. Mine is filippo.ai. Inside it, create one folder for the task you chose yesterday, and inside that: a folder called input (the files you use to build it), a folder called example (one good finished version), and a folder called output (empty, for now). Drag the real files in.
2. Install VS Code. Download it, install it like any program.
3. Open your folder. In VS Code: File, then Open Folder, then pick your folder. Now look left. Your work, sitting in a sidebar, exactly like folders in Outlook.
4. Install the brain. Click the blocks icon on the left. That's the extensions store. Search for Claude Code, install it, click the Claude icon that appears, and sign in.

5. Wake him up.

Open the Claude panel, and paste this, together with your briefing from yesterday:

One thing before he starts.

Bruno asks permission before reading or changing anything.

A small box will pop up: Yes, or Allow.

That's a safety feature, not a problem.

He's a polite colleague. Click yes.

Now watch the screen.

He reads. He asks a question or two.

Then he names YOUR report. YOUR files. YOUR task.

Back to you, in plain sentences.

The first time it happens, it's strange.

In the best possible way.

(Curious about the .md ending? It's just the text format all AI tools read best. Click it: VS Code shows it to you like a normal document. Word, for colleagues with silicon brains.)

And about his memory.

Every time Bruno wakes up, the first thing he reads is that file.

Your world. Your rules. Your task.

Every session, automatically, forever.

One more thing, because you should know what you just bought into.

Nothing.

The brain inside Bruno is swappable.

Today it's Claude, because I use it, and because right now it's the best.

Tomorrow it could be Codex, from OpenAI. Or Gemini, from Google.

Or one day a local brain that runs entirely on your own computer, so nothing private ever leaves it.

Here's the point.

You built the body. The folders. The briefing. The rules.

That part is yours, forever.

The brain, you plug in: always the best one available.

The smartest companies on earth are spending billions to improve your colleague's brain.

We don't compete with them. We build on top of them.

Tomorrow, the hours start coming back.

You'll teach Bruno your task the way you'd teach a new hire...

...and by the end, it becomes a button.

See you tomorrow.

Filippo