Forward Deployed Engineers: Who Owns the Last Mile of AI?
Forward Deployed Engineers turn AI capabilities into production outcomes. Learn what FDEs own, when the model works, where it breaks, and how to evaluate the role.
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The Future of Engineers: Why Understanding the System Outlives Writing the Code
Netflix CPTO Elizabeth Stone says writing lines of code may go away, but understanding how code, systems, and products work will not — and Netflix is hiring systems thinkers over narrow specialists because of it. The evidence behind both claims, and how to keep understanding from decaying.
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Leading High-Velocity Agentic Systems: From Internal Sandboxes to Member-Facing Betas
A practical guide for engineers and PMs on how to lead fast iteration cycles for agentic systems, design useful sandbox UIs and APIs, and graduate the best prototypes into production experiments and real betas.
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