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Found total of 245 articles.

Physical AI, Chapter 10: The Road to Embodied AGI

Chapter 10 of the Physical AI blog series, and the finale. Three trajectories converging, and what is still unsolved. A teaser on the 1977 analogy, what the market forecasts actually assume, the geopolitics of capability, and six entry points for practitioners.
2026-07-02

Physical AI, Chapter 9: Industries Transformed by Physical AI

Chapter 9 of the Physical AI blog series. Not the demos, the deployments. A teaser on hospital logistics, warehouse robotics, the AV 2.0 transition, agriculture and surgery, and the six structural patterns that separate the sectors that shipped from the ones that did not.
2026-07-01

Physical AI, Chapter 8: Safety, Trust, and Regulation

Chapter 8 of the Physical AI blog series. What changes when a digital failure becomes a physical hazard. A teaser on runtime monitors and fallback hierarchies, assurance cases for learned models, the EU AI Act and the ISO standards, and adversarial attacks in the physical world.
2026-06-30

Physical AI, Chapter 7: Hardware Constraints and Edge Computing

Chapter 7 of the Physical AI blog series. The training cluster has 300 watts of headroom; the robot has 60. A teaser on the sensor fusion tax, the compute mismatch, thermal throttling as a silent failure mode, and the techniques for making a model fit.
2026-06-29

Physical AI, Chapter 6: Bridging the Sim-to-Real Divide

Chapter 6 of the Physical AI blog series. Most policy training happens in a simulator, and the simulator is wrong. A teaser on the sources of the reality gap, domain randomization, domain adaptation, real-to-sim-to-real loops, and world foundation models.
2026-06-28

Physical AI, Chapter 5: The Data Bottleneck and Training Paradigms

Chapter 5 of the Physical AI blog series. A second of robot demonstration costs a thousand times more than a sentence of text. A teaser on the teleoperation rigs that changed the field, the three training paradigms, and the data flywheel that compounds with fleet size.
2026-06-27

Physical AI, Chapter 4: Architectures of Intelligence

Chapter 4 of the Physical AI blog series. What is actually inside the policy. A teaser on the roles of LLMs, VFMs, VLMs and VLAs, the primitives from CNNs to state-space models, diffusion policies, and liquid neural networks at the edge.
2026-06-26

Physical AI, Chapter 3: The Physical AI Stack

Chapter 3 of the Physical AI blog series. One perception-action cycle, traced from photon to joint torque. A teaser on the sensor layer, the five representations perception produces, the latency budget, and why tail latency is the number that matters.
2026-06-25

Physical AI, Chapter 2: A Brief History of Robotic Evolution

Chapter 2 of the Physical AI blog series. From Unimate and Shakey to RT-2 and GR00T. A teaser on the two traditions that stopped speaking to each other, the five phases of robotic foundation models, and the Open X-Embodiment result that changed how the field thinks.
2026-06-24

Physical AI, Chapter 1: Defining Physical AI

Chapter 1 of the Physical AI blog series. A language model can write the recipe; the robot drops the pan. A teaser on the three rules that do not apply in the data center, the motor half of the grounding problem, and the line between embodied AI and Physical AI.
2026-06-23

Loop Engineering, Chapter 8: Comprehension Debt and Model Collapse

Chapter 8 of the Loop Engineering blog series, and the finale. The two risks that only appear at scale and over time. A teaser on comprehension debt, model collapse (MAD), and the disciplines that keep both in check.
2026-06-22

Loop Engineering, Chapter 7: Automated Evaluation and LLM-as-a-Judge

Chapter 7 of the Loop Engineering blog series. About 80% of human agreement at 500x lower cost is what makes continuous evaluation possible. A teaser on judge types, the biases that fool them, and continuous scoring with G-Eval.
2026-06-21

Loop Engineering, Chapter 6: Designing Human-in-the-Loop Controls

Chapter 6 of the Loop Engineering blog series. A human who rubber-stamps is not oversight. A teaser on the four rungs of autonomy, fighting automation bias, and the interface patterns that show a person consequences before they approve.
2026-06-20

Loop Engineering, Chapter 5: Sovereign Agentic Loops and Execution Governance

Chapter 5 of the Loop Engineering blog series. Treating model output as an executable command is the central security flaw in agents. A teaser on the decoupling principle, the obfuscation membrane, deterministic policy evaluation with OPA, and the cryptographic evidence chain.
2026-06-19

Loop Engineering, Chapter 4: From Laptop Loops to LLMOps

Chapter 4 of the Loop Engineering blog series. The laptop loop is a real achievement and a terrible production system. A teaser on its failure modes, why LLMOps is not MLOps, and the AI gateway that centralizes fallbacks, budgets, and observability.
2026-06-18

Loop Engineering, Chapter 3: Choosing the Right Orchestration Framework

Chapter 3 of the Loop Engineering blog series. LangGraph, AutoGen, or CrewAI? A teaser on matching the framework to the shape of your workflow with the Diagram Test, and the honest trade-offs between them.
2026-06-17

Loop Engineering, Chapter 2: The Six Primitives of Loop Engineering

Chapter 2 of the Loop Engineering blog series. If a loop is the engine, the six primitives are the parts. A teaser on automations, worktrees, skills, connectors (MCP), the maker/checker split, and external memory.
2026-06-16

Loop Engineering, Chapter 1: The Anatomy of an Agentic Loop

Chapter 1 of the Loop Engineering blog series. Every agentic system begins with a single loop. A teaser on the ReAct pattern, why a loop beats a fixed prompt chain, the arithmetic of per-step reliability, and the discipline of a verifiable stopping condition.
2026-06-15

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 19: The Future of Forward Deployment

Chapter 19 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The final chapter — the automation wave, what the AI FDE cannot do, the rise of FDE-as-a-Service, the talent market evolution, the customer wave, and the function's longer-term maturity. Plus a closing word, and the book.
2026-06-14

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 18: Hiring and Building the Bench

Chapter 18 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The FDE function is, in the end, a collection of people. A teaser on the hiring funnel, the four-round interview loop, compensation benchmarks ($170K–$600K+), onboarding, the career ladder, retention, and building a bench.
2026-06-13

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 17: Measuring Success with Outcome-Level Agreements

Chapter 17 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. Standard SaaS metrics fail for the FDE function. A teaser on Outcome-Level Agreements (OLAs), the engagement dashboard, function-level metrics, building the dashboard, and the OLA as a strategic tool with customers.
2026-06-12

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 16: When Not to Build an FDE Function

Chapter 16 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The inverse case — when an FDE function is the wrong answer. A teaser on the five disqualifying conditions, the alternative models, the hybrid patterns, the premature-optimization trap, and what to build instead.
2026-06-11

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 15: The Economics of Forward Deployment

Chapter 15 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The economic case for the FDE function — and the traps inside it. A teaser on the three pricing models, the impact on gross margin, the services-company trap, multi-year contracts, and what the math implies for founders.
2026-06-10

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 14: Where Does the FDE Function Belong?

Chapter 14 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The placement decision, revisited. A teaser on the five real placement options, the federated model, the five factors that drive the choice, and what to do when the placement turns out to be wrong.
2026-06-09

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 13: When FDE Goes Wrong — Failure Modes and Lessons

Chapter 13 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. Six named failure modes that kill FDE functions before they scale. A teaser on the Consulting Trap, the Snowflake-per-Customer trap, the Hero Engineer, the Demo-Debt Spiral, the Sponsor Collapse, and the Burnout Death Spiral.
2026-06-08

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 12: The New AI Wave — OpenAI, Anthropic, Runway, Greptile

Chapter 12 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The new wave rebuilds the FDE function for the agentic era. A teaser on how OpenAI, Anthropic, Runway, and Greptile each adapted the Palantir template — what's different, what's the same, and three patterns founders should watch.
2026-06-07

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 11: Palantir — The Original Playbook

Chapter 11 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The Palantir teardown — founding conditions, the Delta and Echo split, the long years of operational refinement, the AIP pivot, the AI FDE, and the three lessons for founders.
2026-06-06

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 10: Governance, Risk, and Safe Deployment

Chapter 10 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. In regulated industries, governance is not a tax — it's a feature. A teaser on the risk taxonomy, audit trails, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, the EU AI Act, sector compliance, and the governance dashboard.
2026-06-05

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 9: The Outer Loop — Scaling Field Intelligence

Chapter 9 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The outer loop begins the moment a deployment goes into production. A teaser on gravel roads and paved superhighways, the productization decision, the platform commit, measuring leverage, and the two-team handshake.
2026-06-04

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 8: The Inner Loop — Prototype to Production

Chapter 8 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. From the end of discovery to the first production milestone, the engagement runs on the inner loop. A teaser on the DARE framework, Minimum Viable Architectures, demo-driven development, the hardening phase, and when the customer wants to help.
2026-06-03

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 7: Customer Discovery and the Messy Reality

Chapter 7 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The most important fourteen days of any engagement are the first fourteen. A teaser on the three outputs of discovery, the async interview, the Weird Tuesday problem, the workflow inventory, and the Eval-Customer Split.
2026-06-02

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 6: The Soft Stack — Diplomacy and Strategy

Chapter 6 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The "soft stack" is the part of the FDE skillset most often dismissed as soft. A teaser on MECE, the Pyramid Principle, stakeholder mapping, Managing the Skeptic, the Diplomatic Register, and stress inoculation.
2026-06-01

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 5: The AI and Agentic Frontier

Chapter 5 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The technical bar that the FDE shares with platform engineers — plus the AI-specific skills that separate the role in 2026. A teaser on agents beyond chatbots, RAG, multi-agent orchestration, evals as a discipline, and model-agnostic deployment.
2026-05-31

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 4: The Technical Bar

Chapter 4 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The FDE is, first and last, an engineer. A teaser on the four technical primitives, the non-obvious skills, what you don't need to be, and the four-round interview that actually tests for it.
2026-05-30

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 3: Where the FDE Sits in the Org

Chapter 3 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The first organizational decision is also the most consequential — and the most often wrong. A teaser on the classification mistake, the pod structure, the seniority distribution, and the career-path problem that quietly kills FDE functions.
2026-05-29

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 2: The Last-Mile Problem in Enterprise AI

Chapter 2 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. Where SaaS stopped at the enterprise threshold, AI has to walk the last mile. A teaser on the four frictions at the last mile, the integration tax no demo shows, and why workflow redesign — not the model — is the product.
2026-05-28

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 1: What Is a Forward Deployed Engineer?

Chapter 1 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The opening chapter of a new book — the operator's contradiction, the Palantir origin, the anatomy of the role, why the AI moment needs it now, and how the FDE differs from every sister role it gets confused with.
2026-05-27

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 40: The De-Vibing Protocol — Stabilization Sprints for Production

Chapter 40 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. The final chapter and the remedy for the autocomplete trap — a two-week, agent-heavy stabilization sprint that moves a fast vibes-only build from 90/10 to 50/50 without halting feature development. A teaser on recognizing when you need it, the four tracks, and the three post-sprint disciplines.
2026-05-26

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 39: Impressionistic Scanning — A Visual Heuristic Guide

Chapter 39 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Shape matters before content — especially for AI-generated code, where the agent is often blind to global shape. A teaser cheat sheet of six visual code shapes (wide-flat, deep-nesting, high-import-churn, long-thin, jagged, suspicious-uniformity) and what each one means.
2026-05-25

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 38: Multi-Agent Conflict Resolution — Protocols for Agentic Tie-Breaking

Chapter 38 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. When multiple specialized agents block the same PR with incompatible demands, the answer is a protocol for Agentic Tie-Breaking. A teaser on triaging stacked concerns vs. real conflicts, three resolution protocols, Architect Agent design, and the four governance failure modes.
2026-05-24

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 37: Context Scaling — Just-In-Time Retrieval for Million-Line Codebases

Chapter 37 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Hand-authored Context Packs don't scale past a million lines. A teaser on Just-In-Time Context, retrieval via MCP, the three governors that prevent runaway retrieval, and a concrete pipeline from a 3.8M-line codebase.
2026-05-23

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 36: The Long View

Chapter 36 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. The long view. What happens to our craft, our profession, and our lives over the next ten years? A teaser on cycles and waves, three things that will endure, three that will change, and a final word on identity.
2026-05-22

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 35: A Short Bestiary of Vibe Coders

Chapter 35 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. A light-hearted bestiary of the eight Vibe Coder archetypes — the Sprinter, the Architect, the Skeptic, the Believer, the Pedagog, the Tool-Smith, the Commentator, and the Steady. With growth paths for each.
2026-05-21

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 34: Language-Specific Field Notes

Chapter 34 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Every programming language produces its own Vibe Coding texture. A teaser with field notes on TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java/Kotlin, Ruby, C#, and Shell — including the cross-language pattern that fixes agent default-to-stale-idiom in any language.
2026-05-20

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 33: Building Your Personal Vibe Coding Operating System

Chapter 33 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Every sustainable Vibe Coder has a personal operating system — tools, files, conventions, and habits that turn the practices in this book into your own durable system. A teaser on the five files, the three models, the two editors, the one discipline, and the wonder to keep.
2026-05-19

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 32: Vibe Coding in Platform and Infrastructure

Chapter 32 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Platform work is slow-moving by nature, but every improvement compounds across the whole engineering org. A teaser on infrastructure-as-code, CI evolution, internal-tool velocity, and the deployment-tool rebuild that dropped deploys from 40 minutes to 12.
2026-05-18

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 31: Vibe Coding in Data and ML

Chapter 31 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Data and ML work is where AI-native velocity meets statistical thinking and slow feedback loops. A teaser on ETL graduated rollout, feature-leakage guards, model evaluation boundaries, and the churn-pipeline case study that split build-time (8 days) from validation-time (weeks).
2026-05-17

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 30: Vibe Coding in the Frontend

Chapter 30 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Frontend has a different shape — visual, fast-iterating — and specific failure modes around design systems, accessibility, state, and performance. A teaser on the four domains and the dashboard rebuild that shipped in eleven days.
2026-05-16

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 29: Vibe Coding in the Backend

Chapter 29 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Backends are unusually well suited to agentic development — but each subdomain has characteristic failure modes. A teaser on API design, migrations, job idempotency, caching, auth, and the billing-service rewrite that shipped in four months via extraction rather than vibes.
2026-05-15

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 28: The Tips Archive — 100 Notes from Daily Practice

Chapter 28 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. One hundred numbered tips from daily practice, collected over years. A teaser with twelve of the most-quoted — from "if you're repeating it three times, put it in agents.md" through "do not estimate in hours for agent-assisted work; estimate in cycles."
2026-05-14

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