Where to start
- The show itself — format, hosts, span.
- A handful of episodes are fully transcript-deep (not just summarised from a blurb) — start with the very first episode.
Opens the full graph — zoom in (scroll/pinch) once it loads, it starts zoomed out.
What this is
This site is a knowledge base built entirely by AI from The Generic Foiling Podcast — 147 episodes (2022–2026) hosted by Liam and Freddie, covering wing foiling, downwind, prone and kite foiling.
It’s a demonstration of the “second brain” pattern: an AI librarian that reads raw source material, files it, cross-links it, and keeps it organised — following the approach popularised by Andrej Karpathy (Obsidian as the interface, an LLM as the librarian, a markdown wiki as the growing knowledge base).
I built it as a portfolio piece, applied to public podcast content rather than private notes, so I can show the method openly.
How it was built
- Catalogue — pulled all 147 episodes from the podcast’s RSS feed (title, date, duration, description).
- Graph from metadata — an AI agent read every title and description and built a cross-linked knowledge graph: every guest, brand, gear-maker and location became a page, and every discipline and technique (wing foiling, downwind, pumping, parawing…) became a concept page linking back to the episodes that discuss it.
- Transcribe — episode audio, downloaded from the RSS feed, transcribed locally with faster-whisper at roughly 10× real-time.
- Deep ingest — for transcribed episodes, an AI agent reads the full conversation and writes a proper summary — what was actually said, by whom, with the gear and opinions attributed — then updates every person/brand/concept page the episode touches.
- Publish — the resulting wiki, rendered as this site with Quartz.
Nothing here was written by a human. The judgement of what’s worth keeping is mine; the filing, linking and writing is the AI’s.
A note on accuracy
Episode transcripts are auto-generated and unreviewed. Where the audio was garbled, the summary pages say so rather than guessing. This is a knowledge base, not a verbatim transcript archive — content is summarised and attributed, with credit to The Generic Foiling Podcast throughout.