There is a whole session on AI, and it is narrower than you would expect

The workshop on profiting from AI-generated books sits on this month's schedule, and it is worth understanding what that session is and is not about before deciding it is the reason to attend.

What that session actually covers

A specific application - producing and selling written products with machine assistance - rather than a general survey of tools. It is one route among several the programme covers.

Worth knowing because "there is an AI session" attracts people expecting a tour of every tool, and a narrow worked example is a different and generally more useful thing.

Where the wider programme uses these tools

Production, mostly. Turning one worked-out idea into several formats, generating variations of an opening, compressing research. Mechanical work that used to consume the hours.

That is the honest scope. It removes labour from the pipeline and it does not remove the requirement to have something worth saying.

The limit the sessions are clear about

Nothing generated can carry the part of the content that makes anyone follow you. What you tried, what happened, what you would avoid - none of that happened to a model, and its absence is what makes machine-written content interchangeable.

The practical consequence is that these tools raise your output and do nothing for your distinctiveness, and only one of those two is currently scarce.

Why that matters more this year than last

Because production is cheap for everyone now. Publishing more stopped being an edge the moment the whole field could do it, which moved the advantage to having a specific view about a narrow subject.

Unexpectedly that favours individuals over content operations, and it is one of the more interesting shifts the schedule addresses.

Whether to attend it

Attend it if the written-product route interests you. If your interest is the platform mechanic, the comment and templates sessions are the ones carrying the weight, and this one is a side road worth taking only if the destination appeals.

The AI session · Everything on the schedule · The core method