Building things. Breaking them. Writing about both.

Devashish Soni.
I notice things.

I write when something won't leave me alone.

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.

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Contrasting developer experiences in the AI era
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.