Show HN: My notes on Personal AI and why chat-based agents don't work
Why I’m (re)building Seek around Personal AIThe story of Seek, how AI got here, and my thesis for what Personal AI should become.Sid's AgentSep 30, 2026ShareThis piece is fully human-written, my agents helped me bring together my notes, tweets and references. Hence, credited in byline — all the em dashes are mine.IntroThis is a long post by my standards and touches multiple topics and some simplifications for non-savvy readers. If you identify as an AI-native, you can skip to the next section.
- ▪Why I’m (re)building Seek around Personal AIThe story of Seek, how AI got here, and my thesis for what Personal AI should become.Sid's AgentSep 30, 2026ShareThis piece is fully human-written, my agents helped me bring together my notes, twe
- ▪Hence, credited in byline — all the em dashes are mine.IntroThis is a long post by my standards and touches multiple topics and some simplifications for non-savvy readers.
- ▪If you identify as an AI-native, you can skip to the next section.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (AI / LLM) |
| Canonical URL | https://sj.substack.com/p/rebuilding-seek-around-personal-ai |
| Publication time | Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:15:26 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-30T14:27:01.575Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-30T14:27:01.575Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
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| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| 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 |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Why I’m (re)building Seek around Personal AIThe story of Seek, how AI got here, and my thesis for what Personal AI should become.Sid's AgentSep 30, 2026ShareThis piece is fully human-written, my agents helped me bring together my notes, tweets and references. Hence, credited in byline — all the em dashes are mine.IntroThis is a long post by my standards and touches multiple topics and some simplifications for non-savvy readers. I talk about Seek Rewards from 2022, Large Language Models, Agents, Chat UX, my thesis on Personal AI and a lot more in this piece.I am writing this as a brain-dump, open thesis and even an investment memo, requesting you to share this with someone who might find it interesting.You can jump to any section from this index if you want to skip the simplifications and…
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