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Field Notes

Async interviews with people doing FDE-shaped work: what their week actually looks like, what kinds of problems reach them, what breaks between demo and deployment, and how they decide a system is ready to ship. Named or anonymous, written or voice note.

Notes

Anonymous · Forward Deployed Engineer · model company In progress

What an FDE actually does

The first field note. A forward deployed engineer on what their week actually looks like, what breaks between demo and deployment, and how they decide a system is ready to ship.

role shapedemo to deploymentwhat ready to ship means

Who we interview

  • Forward deployed engineers at model companies
  • Applied AI architects
  • Forward deployed software engineers at data platforms
  • Customer engineers at AI infra companies
  • Founding engineers shipping AI at startups
  • Enterprise AI and solutions architects
  • Customer success engineers on AI deployments

Every note covers

  1. Role shape
  2. What their week actually looks like
  3. What kinds of problems reach them
  4. What breaks between demo and deployment
  5. How they define ready to ship
  6. Artifacts they use
  7. Skills they think matter
  8. The field pattern

Do this kind of work? A field note takes about thirty minutes, async, and can run anonymous. Contribute a field note.