Short by design — the whole picture, fast

The AI Stack 2026

What 1,110 conference talks say about building AI

@aiDotEngineerAI Engineer

1,110
conference talks, of 1,199 enumerated
4.96M
words of transcript
31,726
quotable passages scored
Open the sampleMake your own

Sample PDF · opens in a new tab

Half-title of The AI Stack 2026, set small on a plain white page above the words “a synthesis of 1,110 conference talks”.
Page 5 of The AI Stack 2026: ContentsPage 11 of The AI Stack 2026: Ch. I — The Centre of GravityPage 23 of The AI Stack 2026: Ch. III — More Context Is Not Better Context
Sample pages from the finished book

How it was built.

Transcripts were split into some 31,000 passages, clustered into twenty-four topics by term frequency and deterministic k-means, then read. The clusters are the backbone of the chapters that follow. The quotations are not written by hand: a script scores every quotable passage for length, sentence integrity, topical relevance and freedom from caption noise, then selects the best candidate for each section. Pinned quotations are re-derived from the transcript at build time and checked word by word — the build fails if a word has drifted.

  • 12 short chapters
  • 24 topic clusters
  • Every quote verbatim
  • Talk and timestamp for each
  • Notes cite every source

In the author’s words.

Frequency is not correctness. Where a position is held by a minority of speakers, this book says so rather than averaging it into a consensus.

Note on the sources

Contents.

  1. The Centre of Gravity
  2. Not One Model, a Portfolio
  3. More Context Is Not Better Context
  4. The Harness Is the Product
  5. Benchmarks Measure the Wrong Thing
  6. Where Speakers Disagree
  7. Nobody Has Solved These

More books made with the service.

Make a book from your channel.

This book started as a public YouTube channel, a link, and a short brief. Yours can too — paste a channel to see how the process works.

Turn a channel into a bookGet a quote