# forward deployed engineer (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover forward deployed engineer. Page: Feed: --- ## [Remembering Jay](https://sjl.us/2026/08/22/remembering-jay/) _2026-08-22 · Scott Loftesness · Scott Loftesness_ We were the last class in a room full of forty years of Jay’s vision, and he taught us how to survive being seen—light, gesture, color, and open joy. ## [Prompt: Frontier AI Research Radar](https://sjl.us/2026/08/19/prompt-frontier-ai-research-radar/) _2026-08-19 · Scott Loftesness · Scott Loftesness_ I’ve built a prompt that turns ChatGPT into a personal AI research analyst—helping me cut through the noise and find what’s truly new in the field. ## [How Real-Time Multimodal AI Actually Works](https://priyankavergadia.substack.com/p/thinking-machines-lab-voice-ai-models) _2026-08-19 · The Cloud Girl · Cloud Girl_ How Real-Time Multimodal AI Actually Works ## [Prompt: Finding YouTube Videos](https://sjl.us/2026/08/18/prompt-finding-youtube-videos/) _2026-08-18 · Scott Loftesness · Scott Loftesness_ The author sought Gemini's assistance to create a prompt for accessing AI-related YouTube videos that are engaging and informative. The prompt targets retired tech professionals, focusing on high technical substance and recent uploads. Strict guidelines exclude clickbait and novice content, ensuring videos are intellectually stimulating and well-produced. ## [How Big Models Teach Small Models: Distillation Explained](https://priyankavergadia.substack.com/p/how-big-models-teach-small-models) _2026-08-17 · The Cloud Girl · Cloud Girl_ A team at a health-tech startup ships a symptom-checker app that runs a 70-billion-parameter model in the cloud. ## [Music Playlist Prompts](https://sjl.us/2026/08/16/music-playlist-prompts/) _2026-08-16 · Scott Loftesness · Scott Loftesness_ A day or two ago I reminisced about San Francisco’s KKSF which was a delightful listen during the late 80’s-early 90’s. While I was working on that post, it dawned on me that I could try using AI to write a prompt to use with a new feature in Apple Music that allows you to \[…\] ## [Demons Hate Fresh Air](https://sjl.us/2026/08/16/demons-hate-fresh-air-3/) _2026-08-16 · Scott Loftesness · Scott Loftesness_ The magic isn’t in the walk itself—it’s in how it shifts your focus so old memories, half-formed ideas, and forgotten details start talking to each other. ## [Tsunami](https://sjl.us/2026/08/15/tsunami/) _2026-08-16 · Scott Loftesness · Scott Loftesness_ The trucks are what I remember. Not the houses, not yet — the trucks. This was 2012, Atherton, a Tuesday probably, and I was driving through on some errand that doesn’t matter anymore. What matters is that the street had rearranged itself. Contractors’ pickups lined both shoulders, nose to tail, so many of them that \[…\] ## [Remembering San Francisco’s KKSF](https://sjl.us/2026/08/15/remembering-san-franciscos-kksf/) _2026-08-16 · Scott Loftesness · Scott Loftesness_ Before streaming, before the algorithm chose for you, a San Francisco radio station chose for you instead in such a delightful way. ## [Should You Even Get Out? (An Honest Answer from a Biased Source)](https://sitreps2steercos.substack.com/p/should-you-even-get-out-an-honest) _2026-08-15 · Sitreps2Steercos Substack · The Weekly Sitrep_ One of the fastest-growing questions veterans ask us isn’t “how do I get out” — it’s “should I?” ## [Unlimited Mobile Internet, One V-SIM (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Q32hKaL3VaP2) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Automatically switches across T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon; no throttling, no contract. ## [It’s the Harness, Stupid!](https://sjl.us/2026/08/15/its-the-harness-stupid/) _2026-08-15 · Scott Loftesness · Scott Loftesness_ As intelligence gets cheaper and more interchangeable, the economic prize may be migrating somewhere else entirely — to whoever controls the harness around the model, not whoever trained it. ## [The Arithmetic of the Sold-Out Warehouse](https://sjl.us/2026/08/14/the-arithmetic-of-the-sold-out-warehouse/) _2026-08-14 · Scott Loftesness · Scott Loftesness_ In the spring of 2026, Nvidia reported a quarter in which it sold $81.6 billion worth of chips, wrote it up at a gross margin of nearly 75 percent, and casually mentioned that cloud GPUs were sold out. Jensen Huang called it the largest infrastructure expansion in human history, and for once a CEO’s hyperbole \[…\] ## [The Manufacture of Emergency](https://sjl.us/2026/08/14/the-manufacture-of-emergency/) _2026-08-14 · Scott Loftesness · Scott Loftesness_ The appetite for manufactured stakes — built over decades in fraud detection, flying, and trading — doesn’t retire when the career does. ## [Databricks For Dummies, Visually Explained](https://priyankavergadia.substack.com/p/databricks-for-dummies-visually-explained) _2026-08-12 · The Cloud Girl · Cloud Girl_ Databricks Cheatsheet: Visually Explained ## [Enterprise AI Gateway Explained Visually](https://priyankavergadia.substack.com/p/enterprise-ai-gateway-explained-visually) _2026-08-10 · The Cloud Girl · Cloud Girl_ How is AI Gateway different from API Gateway ## [The Diffusion of Ordinary Work](https://sjl.us/2026/08/08/the-diffusion-of-ordinary-work/) _2026-08-09 · Scott Loftesness · Scott Loftesness_ The race that matters may not be the sprint toward the next frontier model — it may be the slower, unglamorous work of teaching ordinary engineers to put the technology to work. ## [The Depth of the Dimes](https://sjl.us/2026/08/08/the-depth-of-the-dimes/) _2026-08-08 · Scott Loftesness · Scott Loftesness_ The lifeguard came out with a canvas bag, and that was the signal. Saturday morning, Kettering, Ohio, the municipal pool not yet warmed by the day, and forty kids arranging themselves along the edge like something had been rehearsed, though nobody had rehearsed it. We knew the shape of the thing without being told. He \[…\] ## [Inversion](https://sjl.us/2026/08/08/inversion/) _2026-08-08 · Scott Loftesness · Scott Loftesness_ SpaceX’s plan flips the script—rooftops become cell sites, and customers pay SpaceX instead of landlords, cutting costs big time. ## [Single Agent vs Multi-Agent Architecture Visually Explained](https://priyankavergadia.substack.com/p/single-agent-vs-multi-agent-architecture) _2026-08-07 · The Cloud Girl · Cloud Girl_ Single Agent vs Multi-Agent Architecture Cheatsheet ## [The Heron at Sharon Park](https://sjl.us/2026/08/06/the-heron-at-sharon-park/) _2026-08-07 · Scott Loftesness · Scott Loftesness_ Two herons—one in the water, one in the light—seemed equally real, sharing a moment that felt like punctuation from the pond. ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VPOIMNgouOEg) _2026-08-07 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## [The FDE Storytelling framework I wish someone gave me 15 years ago!](https://priyankavergadia.substack.com/p/the-fde-storytelling-framework-i) _2026-08-06 · The Cloud Girl · Cloud Girl_ Non-technical Soft skills needed to be land Forward Deployed Engineering role ## [Power + GPUs ≠ AI Cloud. So What's Missing? Explained](https://priyankavergadia.substack.com/p/how-are-neoclouds-actually-built) _2026-08-04 · The Cloud Girl · Cloud Girl_ The Anatomy of a NeoCloud, Visually Explained ## [The New Battle In Software Engineering is Code Reviews](https://priyankavergadia.substack.com/p/the-new-battle-in-software-engineering) _2026-08-04 · The Cloud Girl · Cloud Girl_ We Have Solved AI Coding. Next Challenge is the Code Review. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209579053/5d6daf911009e7bb4a1fc606f16bcc9e.mp3) ## [How to Get Back to Command as a Civilian](https://sitreps2steercos.substack.com/p/how-to-get-back-to-command-as-a-civilian) _2026-08-01 · Sitreps2Steercos Substack · The Weekly Sitrep_ Austin Texas Meetup on August 22nd - Patriots Hall ## [100 Must Know Claude Commands: Claude Cheatsheet](https://priyankavergadia.substack.com/p/100-must-know-claude-commands-claude) _2026-08-01 · The Cloud Girl · Cloud Girl_ Claude Cheatsheet ## [Prompt -\> Context -\> Harness -\> Loop -\> Graph Engineering Explained Visually](https://priyankavergadia.substack.com/p/ai-systems-thinking-explained-prompt) _2026-07-31 · The Cloud Girl · Cloud Girl_ Prompt -\> Context -\> Harness -\> Loop -\> Graph Engineering ## [FDE 101](https://fdepod.substack.com/p/fde-101) _2026-07-29 · The FDE Pod by Kevin Bai · FDE Pod_ I gave the FDE 101 talk to a thousand AI engineers. It's a design partnership that scales into enterprise and never ends. ## [Agentic development did not fix delivery. It exposed it](https://enterprisecontextmanagement.substack.com/p/agentic-development-did-not-fix-delivery) _2026-07-23 · Enterprise Context Management_ How we built FieldOne to turn compressed build time into trustworthy production delivery ## [The Palantir Effect: Why Every Defense Tech Company Has a “Forward Deployed Engineer” Now](https://sitreps2steercos.substack.com/p/the-palantir-effect-why-every-defense) _2026-07-11 · Sitreps2Steercos Substack · The Weekly Sitrep_ Palantir productized and branded the Forward Deployed Engineer role over two decades. Now Anduril, Shield AI, Saronic, Govini, Castelion, and Skydio all have their own version of it. Veterans have a s ## [The Determinism Problem](https://enterprisecontextmanagement.substack.com/p/the-determinism-problem) _2026-07-06 · Mark Sykes · Enterprise Context Management_ Why Agent Systems Need a Deterministic Execution Layer ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/JGN9QgrWuclw) _2026-07-06 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [False Summits: Why Enterprise AI Keeps Looking Finished](https://enterprisecontextmanagement.substack.com/p/false-summits-why-enterprise-ai-keeps) _2026-06-30 · Conor Twomey · Enterprise Context Management_ A practitioner's map of the six milestones that feel like the finish line, why the best teams still stall, and the three disciplines that actually reach production. ## [30,000+ Questions Later: The 5 Things Every Transitioning Veteran Wants to Know](https://sitreps2steercos.substack.com/p/30000-questions-later-the-5-things) _2026-06-28 · Sitreps2Steercos Substack · The Weekly Sitrep_ Across the Sitreps tool stack last month: 30,000+ chatbot questions, 20,000+ Pathways analyses, 412 salary submissions. The patterns are clear. Here are the five things every veteran in transition is ## [The Work Is Inside the Parentheses](https://enterprisecontextmanagement.substack.com/p/the-work-is-inside-the-parentheses) _2026-06-23 · Chuck · Enterprise Context Management_ The next frontier is systems that know what they are checking for. ## [What It Means to Be a Forward Deployed Engineer](https://fdepod.substack.com/p/what-it-means-to-be-a-forward-deployed) _2026-06-09 · The FDE Pod by Kevin Bai · FDE Pod_ The best commercial motion in enterprise software is the one nobody puts on the org chart. ## [What Post-WWII Veterans Built. And What You Should Do With It.](https://sitreps2steercos.substack.com/p/what-post-wwii-veterans-built-and) _2026-06-06 · Sitreps2Steercos Substack · The Weekly Sitrep_ 82 years ago today, 156,000 Allied troops crossed the English Channel. Most of the ones who made it home would build the modern American economy from scratch. ## [What Woke the Agent?](https://enterprisecontextmanagement.substack.com/p/what-woke-the-agent) _2026-06-04 · Mark Sykes · Enterprise Context Management_ Use tokens for managing business events, not checking for silence. ## [We Free Smart People to Work on Hard Problems](https://fdepod.substack.com/p/we-free-smart-people-to-work-on-hard) _2026-06-04 · The FDE Pod by Kevin Bai · FDE Pod_ What Rippling on the Road reminded me about the real job of an FDE ## [Bad MBAs Are Dying. Veterans Just Won.](https://sitreps2steercos.substack.com/p/bad-mbas-are-dying-veterans-just) _2026-05-31 · Sitreps2Steercos Substack · The Weekly Sitrep_ The 2025 tax act capped Grad PLUS loans at $100K, killing the online and mid-tier programs that diluted the MBA brand. The top-tier MBA just got more concentrated, and the GI Bill still pays the bill. ## [What Is a Forward Deployed Engineer?](https://fdepod.substack.com/p/test) _2026-05-22 · The FDE Pod by Kevin Bai · FDE Pod_ Lessons from My Propel 2026 Keynote - May 2026 ## [How to Get the VA to Pay for Your Tech Training (Without Burning Your GI Bill)](https://sitreps2steercos.substack.com/p/how-to-get-the-va-to-pay-for-your) _2026-05-17 · Sitreps2Steercos Substack · The Weekly Sitrep_ The McCormick Gallego Act and what it means for your Tech Career post military ## [From Forward Deployed Engineers to Forward Deployed Software](https://enterprisecontextmanagement.substack.com/p/from-forward-deployed-engineers-to) _2026-05-14 · Fergus Keenan · Enterprise Context Management_ Forward deployed engineers can earn the first use case. Forward deployed software is what turns the second, third, and tenth use case into repeatable ROI. ## [How to Plan Your Transition at 2 Years, 1 Year, and 6 Months Out](https://sitreps2steercos.substack.com/p/how-to-plan-your-transition-at-2) _2026-05-09 · Sitreps2Steercos Substack · The Weekly Sitrep_ 45 Hot Defense Tech and Private Equity Roles for Veterans, New Meetup for Virginia Beach! ## [How to Get Paid What You're Actually Worth After the Military](https://sitreps2steercos.substack.com/p/how-to-get-paid-what-youre-actually) _2026-05-03 · Sitreps2Steercos Substack · The Weekly Sitrep_ 50+ Open Roles for Veterans and Upcoming Meetups ## [How to Actually Get Hired in Defense Tech](https://sitreps2steercos.substack.com/p/how-to-actually-get-hired-in-defense) _2026-04-26 · Sitreps2Steercos Substack · The Weekly Sitrep_ New features on sitreps.com + eMerge Roundup + 50 High Paying Jobs for Veterans + Upcoming Sitreps Meetups ## [Stop Hiring Your Agents](https://enterprisecontextmanagement.substack.com/p/stop-hiring-your-agents) _2026-04-22 · Fergus Keenan · Enterprise Context Management_ The enterprise doesn't need digital employees. It needs to rethink how work gets done. ## [The Single-Provider Trap Is Coming to Enterprise AI](https://enterprisecontextmanagement.substack.com/p/the-single-provider-trap-is-coming) _2026-04-16 · Mark Sykes · Enterprise Context Management_ The most expensive AI decision many companies will make in the next few years will feel like the safest one. ## [Evaluation Is How Agentic AI Earns the Right to Act. Here's What We're Finding.](https://enterprisecontextmanagement.substack.com/p/evaluation-is-how-agentic-ai-earns) _2026-04-15 · Mark Sykes · Enterprise Context Management_ If memory is how an agent learns, evaluation is how it earns the right to act. ## [Memory Is the Next Frontier for AI. Here’s What We’re Finding.](https://enterprisecontextmanagement.substack.com/p/memory-is-the-next-frontier-for-ai) _2026-03-26 · Mark Sykes · Enterprise Context Management_ Our approach to enterprise memory architecture, and what the early results show. ## [Why Forward Deployed Engineers Are Dangerous (In the Best Way)](https://www.alecskriloff.com/blog/forward-deployed-engineers-are-dangerous) _2025-09-11 · My Portfolio_ Forward deployed engineers are becoming one of the most important roles in the modern startup landscape. ## [The Next Generation of Interfaces](https://www.alecskriloff.com/blog/next-generation-of-interfaces) _2025-09-08 · My Portfolio_ There is a newer generation of startups that are rethinking how interfaces are built. This is the next generation of interfaces.