I'm scared. 10 years ago… I sold my company after a near-death health crisis and felt lost. I traveled, hoping to find myself. But I didn't find meaning on beaches or airplanes. I started writing sci-fi short stories. I got published, but then something weird happened… they started teaching me who I was. Then I tried AI, and I stopped writing completely. That's when I started building Sudowrite with James. This was years before ChatGPT. We saw AI would change writing forever. And it was oddly dispiriting. AI made me stop writing, because AI sucked for writing. AI was magical and astonishingly smart. But it couldn't write prose that made you feel something. Every few months, AI got better at coding and analyzing legal contracts and solving math Olympiad problems, but it got worse at making shit up or writing something a person would want to read for pleasure. Here's the thing: We fought it, hard. With devilishly clever workarounds, complex prompting strategies, and symphonies of AI models that overcome each others' weaknesses we made something that thousands of writers use to tell amazing stories. But the writing was on the wall. Nobody was going to make an AI model for authors, because nobody cared. So we did. And so there are two reasons I'm scared today. First: We're not OpenAI or Anthropic. They've got billions. We're a scrappy team that loves writers. We have amazing writers cheering us on. But we've spent over a year on this and I can still see so many ways it could be better. We put everything we've learned about writing great fiction with AI into this. It's the best out there. I hope it's good enough. Second: What's my excuse not to write now? (What's yours?) 👇

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