Building things. Breaking them. Writing about both.

Devashish Soni.
I notice things.

I write when something won't leave me alone.

The same 72-year-old equation ranks chess grandmasters and GPT-4.

Bradley-Terry (1952) powers Elo, Chatbot Arena, and the loss function that trains every aligned language model. Nobody talks about what it can't do.

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Strauss Zelnick staring into the camera as he plays the infamous knight to c4 in the frontier AI labs' chess of today. Beth harmon inspired from Queen's Gambit ;3
We spent 20 years managing technical debt. AI just made it irrelevant. The code isn't messier. In some ways it's cleaner than ever. The problem is that no one wrote it, and nobody has built the system to measure what that costs.
May 20, 2026
Melbourne to Sydney: A Road Trip Along the East Coast Ten days, three states, a dozen unforgettable stops. Notes from my first international road trip through Victoria and New South Wales.
May 15, 2026
Uber burned their annual AI budget in four months. The problem isn't the price. 5,000 engineers. One year's AI tooling budget. Gone in four months. The issue isn't cost, it's that agents relearn your entire project from scratch, every session.
May 1, 2026

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I'm a software engineer based in Gurugram, currently at Volkswagen Group Digital Solutions India. I write about the intersection of engineering practice, AI tooling, and the things that are quietly changing about how we build software.