Somya Anand

Building AI systems inspired by human thinking—memory, dialogue, and learning through use. Curious about NLP, personalization, lifelong agents, and deeply human tools. This is my digital garden. If you’re exploring interesting problems in ML or AI, I’d love to hear about them.

Recent Writing

The World is the Test Why evaluating AI agents requires building the worlds they'll inhabit.

The Era of Personalized Software Building for an audience of one—how cheap implementation is enabling the long tail of software.

From Reading Rut to Reading System Building an LLM-powered book companion inspired by a Tokyo librarian.

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From the Garden

Reading Companion An MCP server for intentional reading and reflection.

Q1 2026 Reading Syllabus My current reading plan across four domains.

AI Interviewer Adaptive interview system with persona-driven evaluation.

Customer Intelligence Simulation-based evaluation for sales enablement.

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Books & Reading

Reading Now

  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

Up Next

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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