AI Harmony 🌟🤖

The source text and LaTeX formatting for AI Harmony by Brad Flaugher

📘 New: The Fable Edition (2026). AI Harmony has been revised and updated. New for this edition: a retrospective preface, blue 2026 update: margin notes throughout, a model card for the Agentic Coworker, and major new sections on the open-source race to the bottom, the author's Tesla confession, and the arrival of the drone wars. The update was produced the way the book says work should be produced — the human author collaborating with an AI agent (built on a model named Fable, hence the name). Get the PDF from releases. The professionally narrated audiobook follows the first edition text.

Getting a copy of AI Harmony

The pdf copy of the book has many fancy formatting options enabled, see the preview below.

Get a copy of AI Harmony via one of the following steps:

Option 1: Download an epub, pdf or the audiobook

• See releases for epub, pdf, and audiobook downloads (the Fable Edition PDF is the latest release).

Option 2: Compile the pdf via a podman Container 🚀

1. install podman
2. cd to project folder
3. bash runpodman.sh
4. the book will be output in the file main.pdf

Option 3: Compile Using Local TexLive Installation 🖥️

1. install texlive (on debian-based GNU/Linux distros) with sudo apt install texlive-full
2. run bash makebook.sh to compile
3. the book will be output in the file main.pdf

Key Files and Folders 📂

• chapters: the text of the book (with margin notes)
• images: AI-generated images that adorn the margins
• main.tex: formatting LaTeX code
• main.bib: the bibliography

Formatting help, advice for your own book

Refer to the Kaobook project, upon which AI Harmony is based.

Contributing and TODOs

If you'd like to contribute a chapter, revisions or whatever you like, you can email Brad at brad@bradflaugher.com or just submit a PR.

If you'd like to see what I am working on for the second edition see TODO.md.

Copyright and GPL Notice ©️

"AI Harmony" Copyright 2023, 2026 Brad Flaugher

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Kaobook Acknowledgment 📖

The kaobook class, consisting of kaobook.cls, kaohandt.cls, and kao.def are licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License. The kaobook project can be found at https://github.com/fmarotta/kaobook