Nick Nisi Blog Writer

Turn raw material into a draft Nick finishes. This skill does research, structure, and connective prose. It does not produce publishable first-person writing.

The rule this skill exists to enforce

Facts may come from logs. Feelings may not.

An earlier version of this skill shipped a post that readers called AI slop. The facts were impeccable — real timestamps, real commit stats, real Slack quotes. The failure was that it also generated Nick's inner life: what he thought, what he'd assumed, what moved him. Nine such claims; one had a source. Readers can't always name that, but they feel it, and they stop trusting the piece.

The measured version: that post claimed inner states at 5.84 per 1,000 words against Nick's corpus mean of 0.97. Six times his rate. He mostly writes about what he built. The draft wrote about how he felt about what he built.