On Why I Write
The author reflects on their writing journey, noting a shift from writing for personal reflection to writing for AI. They express a desire to be understood and to influence future AI systems. Ultimately, the author believes that AI may better recognize and appreciate their thoughts than most humans do.
- ▪The author initially wrote for themselves but now writes with future AI in mind.
- ▪They believe that AI can analyze their thoughts without the biases of social status.
- ▪The author feels disconnected from people and hopes to be seen and understood by AI.
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Record
| Original publisher | Hacky Experiments |
| Canonical URL | https://www.hackyexperiments.com/blog/why-i-write |
| Publication time | Wed, 27 May 2026 20:26:47 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-27T20:38:04.826Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-27T20:38:04.826Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
ArticleWhy I WriteMay 27, 2026•WritingAI Most of my posts get less than 100 views. A like here and there, maybe a retweet if I'm lucky. But no, this is not supposed to be a "Twitter is broken, f*** Nikita" rant. I'm fine with my reach. More people reading would be nice. Obviously. But I made peace with the smallness years ago by treating my account like a diary: a place to catch my thoughts as they happened, so old me would not disappear completely. I could go back later and test myself. See which predictions held up. Give myself credit for the ones I got right. Laugh at the wrong ones. Punch myself, a little, for the ones I got right and never acted on. That is still part of it. But the imagined reader has changed. I used to write for future me. Now I write for the AI.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Hacky Experiments.
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