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Field notes on forward deployed AI engineering.
Why AI pilots stall, what a forward deployed engineer does, and how to buy or build the work. Written by Nasser Ghanemzadeh, author of Forward Deployed AI Engineering.
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· 5 min read
Gravel roads and paved highways: the Palantir pattern now running the AI industry
For twenty years the industry treated Palantir's operating model as a curiosity. Then, in about eighteen months, it became the consensus.
· 4 min read
Two questions and one number decide whether you need forward deployed engineers
Every AI company is hiring the role. A two-by-two from Kevin Bai and a $100,000 contract floor tell you whether yours should.
· 3 min read
What a forward deployed engineer actually does
It isn't a sales engineer, a consultant, or a CSM with a GitHub account. Every word in the title is doing work.
· 4 min read
Why 95% of enterprise AI pilots never reach production (it's not the model)
The most important number in enterprise AI isn't a benchmark score. It's the gap between pilot and production, and in 2026 the industry put billions behind closing it.
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