https://soumalya.in/blogs Essays on AI, engineering and photography. en https://soumalya.in/blog/light-before-lens https://soumalya.in/blog/light-before-lens Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Photography Before you raise the camera, you have already taken the photograph. The lens is just the formality. Real photography begins in how you choose to look at the world. https://soumalya.in/blog/ai-agents-real-world https://soumalya.in/blog/ai-agents-real-world Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology Most AI agent demos are impressive in a controlled environment. Production is a different country — one with edge cases, bad inputs, and users who never read the documentation. https://soumalya.in/blog/react-beyond-basics https://soumalya.in/blog/react-beyond-basics Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology After years of building in React — from class components to hooks to server components — here is what I have actually learned versus what the documentation taught me. https://soumalya.in/blog/edge-computing-next https://soumalya.in/blog/edge-computing-next Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology I have published research on edge-enabled drone networks and spent time building edge inference systems. Here is an honest picture of where edge computing stands and where it is going. https://soumalya.in/blog/photograph-as-document https://soumalya.in/blog/photograph-as-document Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Photography Every photograph is a choice — of frame, of moment, of what to include and what to cut. Understanding this does not make photography dishonest. It makes it a language. https://soumalya.in/blog/gen-ai-developer-workflow https://soumalya.in/blog/gen-ai-developer-workflow Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology Not the hype version — the honest one. What generative AI has genuinely changed about how I write, debug, and ship code, and what it has not changed at all.