My First FDE Experience - What Broke When We Replaced Squarespace With Claude
This is the first in a series of field notes about what worked, what broke, and what I learned while practicing forward-deployed engineering inside my own organization.
Patrick Zhang
Patrick Zhang's learning notes on startups, applied AI, and healthcare.
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