Blissful Bytes
Lavkesh Dwivedi

Engineer by trade.
Writer by choice.

Writing about what actually works in production. Cloud systems, agentic AI, and the engineering decisions behind both.

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New book
The Visibility Tax: A Writer In The Code

Kumar just got a four percent raise. His manager called it visibility. He is good at the work, he loves the work, and none of that showed up on the number. A book for the senior engineer who keeps getting nudged toward management and isn't sure he's allowed to want something else.

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Building
Agentic workflows that do not break when the model changes.
Reading
Will Larson on staff engineering; John Allspaw on incidents.
Thinking
How team topology shapes the systems we end up shipping.

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About
Lavkesh Dwivedi

Senior software engineer. I design cloud architecture and agentic AI systems, with a focus on distributed systems and the reliability decisions that only look obvious after production proves them wrong.

Blissful Bytes is where I write to think: trade-offs that resist clean answers, the distance between what documentation promises and what systems actually do under pressure.

I also wrote The Visibility Tax, a book about staying an individual contributor on purpose in a career built to push you into management.

I also do academic research. Different discipline, different standards of evidence. I find the contrast useful.

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Open to conversations about engineering, AI systems, and research. Always happy to connect with people working on interesting problems.

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