Yash Patil(@ypatil125):The real power of forward deployed engineering has always been putting strong technical people directly alongside the operators who own the outcome. That proximity forces the work to solve the actual problem instead of some sanitized version of it. In the AI era this principle has become even more valuable. Agents can now sit inside real workflows and improve from actual decisions, which means the highest-leverage work is extracting the tacit knowledge that lives with subject matter experts, building evaluations that reflect how things actually break, and closing the production feedback loop so agents get better from real outcomes.

2026.05.16 01:46

The real power of forward deployed engineering has always been putting strong technical people directly alongside the operators who own the outcome. That proximity forces the work to solve the actual problem instead of some sanitized version of it. In the AI era this principle has become even more valuable. Agents can now sit inside real workflows and improve from actual decisions, which means the highest-leverage work is extracting the tacit knowledge that lives with subject matter experts, building evaluations that reflect how things actually break, and closing the production feedback loop so agents get better from real outcomes.

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