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Found total of 6 articles.

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 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 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 26: Checklists for the Working Engineer

Chapter 26 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Six one-page checklists I reach for mid-task — new feature, PR, deploy, post-incident, Context Pack health, and interview. A teaser on why checklists are most valuable when you're most confident you don't need them.

2026-05-12

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 12: The GenDD Pod

Chapter 12 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Three people, continuous flow, almost no ceremony — the team structure that actually ships AI-native work sustainably. A teaser on the Agentic Product Lead, Engineer, and QA roles, the transition from Agile, and the case study where a SaaS company went from 72 engineers to 24.

2026-04-28

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