19/08/2026
I found out last week that the job I have been doing for a year has a name. Forward deployed engineer. OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring teams of them.
The work is walking into somebody else's business and making AI actually run on their data and their mess. Not demoing it. The write-ups call it half consultant, half builder. The building is the hirable half. The other half is the one nobody wants.
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