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Field notes from the deployment crisis.
Every company is hiring forward deployed engineers. Almost none have built the system those engineers feed — so each deployment still starts from zero. These are notes on the system the role outran, by Cory Haldeman.
The Round Up
The week in applied AI & forward-deployed engineering.
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August 29, 2026
The FDE Round Up — No. 08
Amazon Web Services spent last week telling its consulting partners to stop selling hours. It wants them pricing per workflow executed, per document processed, per solved customer …
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August 22, 2026
The FDE Round Up — No. 07
Anthropic's services venture bought its second implementation firm since May, the month OpenAI stood up a deployment company of its own. The compensation data that landed this week…
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July 15, 2026
The FDE Round Up — No. 01
Two years ago, "forward-deployed engineer" was a Palantir term of art. This month it became a line item on four of the largest tech balance sheets in the world.…
On the system
The forward-deployment wedge.
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May 22, 2026
The FDE Boom Can't Save The AI Value Narrative
The FDE boom can't change the AI value narrative by itself.…
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June 11, 2026
FDE Fellowship
Last week Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced an FDE fellowship.…
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April 2, 2026
The Power of an FDE
The power of an FDE isn't in the role. It's in the system it feeds.…
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