I Started Writing for Others. It Changed How I Learn.

When I started writing on Dev.to, the idea was simple. I was learning AI without a clear path. Jumping between courses, restarting often, and constantly feeling behind. I thought — if I’m struggling to find structure, others probably are too. Maybe documenting the mess would help someone. That was the plan. What I didn’t expect was how much it would help me. 🤯 Writing Raised The Bar For Learning Before I started writing, my standard was simple: Do I understand this enough to use it? That was enough. Writing changed that without me realizing it. When you know you’re going to explain something publicly, “I kind of get it” stops being enough. You start asking better questions: why this works, why it’s used over something else, what breaks and why. The embeddings article made this obvious. I thought I understood it before I started writing. Writing it exposed gaps I didn’t know existed. I had to go back, fill them, and come back again. I’m not learning faster because I write. I’m learning