https://lavkesh.com Weekly writing on engineering, AI, cloud, and leadership. en-us Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lavkesh.com/articles/when-memory-cache-served-stale-data-lavkesh-dwivedi-2026-05-30 https://lavkesh.com/articles/when-memory-cache-served-stale-data-lavkesh-dwivedi-2026-05-30 Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A misguided cache strategy taught us the cost of theoretical assumptions in production systems. 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EngineeringLeadershipCareer https://lavkesh.com/articles/my-first-big-rewrite-lavkesh-dwivedi-2026-04-25 https://lavkesh.com/articles/my-first-big-rewrite-lavkesh-dwivedi-2026-04-25 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I spent years building a system that had grown unwieldy, forcing me to scrap it and start over. The experience taught me valuable lessons that I still apply to software development today. EngineeringCareer https://lavkesh.com/articles/when-you-re-the-expert-and-you-re-wrong-lavkesh-dwivedi-2026-04 https://lavkesh.com/articles/when-you-re-the-expert-and-you-re-wrong-lavkesh-dwivedi-2026-04 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I've learned the hard way that expertise can be a double-edged sword, isolating you from the team and leading to poor decisions when you're not careful. People and workLeadershipCareer https://lavkesh.com/articles/demo-is-not-the-product-lavkesh-dwivedi-qx3tc https://lavkesh.com/articles/demo-is-not-the-product-lavkesh-dwivedi-qx3tc Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A demo takes twenty minutes to build but six months later the team rebuilds it from scratch. Not because the idea was wrong, but because demo and production requirements differ. AI https://lavkesh.com/articles/context-windows-got-big-now-what-lavkesh-dwivedi-ppycc https://lavkesh.com/articles/context-windows-got-big-now-what-lavkesh-dwivedi-ppycc Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A year ago, models could hold a million tokens in context, roughly 750,000 words or ten novels. The capability is impressive but often misunderstood, with many teams finding it challenging to effectively utilize large context windows in production. Engineering https://lavkesh.com/articles/cloud-bill-nobody-budgeted-lavkesh-dwivedi-isdcc https://lavkesh.com/articles/cloud-bill-nobody-budgeted-lavkesh-dwivedi-isdcc Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 After months of training hype, our AI feature went live and the cloud bill tripled; per‑token pricing blew past a $200 k budget, leaving finance scrambling. AICloud https://lavkesh.com/articles/future-software-engineering-age-ai-lavkesh-dwivedi-nvuoc https://lavkesh.com/articles/future-software-engineering-age-ai-lavkesh-dwivedi-nvuoc Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I watched in awe as an AI tool produced working code in 30 seconds, leaving me wondering what my role as a software engineer entails in this new world. 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AI https://lavkesh.com/articles/growing-importance-developers-age-ai-agentic-systems-lavkesh-dwivedi-tx98c https://lavkesh.com/articles/growing-importance-developers-age-ai-agentic-systems-lavkesh-dwivedi-tx98c Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AI capabilities are exploding with large language models like GPTs and agentic systems that reason and plan. Developers are shifting from writing code to architecting systems. AI https://lavkesh.com/articles/rise-fall-revival-nokias-lessons-today-lavkesh-dwivedi-dfkqc https://lavkesh.com/articles/rise-fall-revival-nokias-lessons-today-lavkesh-dwivedi-dfkqc Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Nokia dominated the early 2000s phone market with durable, reliable, affordable devices. By 2014, it sold its phone division to Microsoft and refocused on networks. What can organizations learn from Nokia's journey? Engineering https://lavkesh.com/articles/agentic-ai-document-video-summarization-lavkesh-dwivedi-eehtc https://lavkesh.com/articles/agentic-ai-document-video-summarization-lavkesh-dwivedi-eehtc Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Agentic AI acts with intent to summarize content, deciding what to include and how, making it easier to keep up with the volume of reports, research papers, and training videos AzureAI https://lavkesh.com/articles/my-leap-world-agentic-ai-lavkesh-dwivedi-orrtc https://lavkesh.com/articles/my-leap-world-agentic-ai-lavkesh-dwivedi-orrtc Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I recall opening Visual Studio and typing 'Hello World' in C#, feeling like magic. 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