Find, Instrument, Rollout, Evolve. The loop that turns a one-off automation into a system that gets sharper every cycle.
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the real work
Map how the work actually happens, not how the doc says it does.
CheckpointAn operating map: the workflow today vs. with AI built in.
Andreessen Horowitz argues AI startups should embrace implementation-heavy services, like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Workday did, rather than chase product-led growth and 80% gross margins.
The author analyzed 1,000 forward deployed engineer job postings from Revealera and found the title covers three distinct roles: Builder FDEs who embed with customers writing production code (60%), rebranded sales…
AWS is investing $1 billion in a dedicated Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization that embeds engineers and purpose-built AI agents directly inside customer teams.
about Palantir’s mission, operating system, and AI opportunity
In this Latent Space episode, Modal CTO Akshat Bubna argues that cloud infrastructure designed for human developers must evolve for agents, which need fast iteration loops, sandboxes, and programmatic control instead…
Latent Space interviews Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson after its $750M Series D at a $16B valuation, with over $1B annualized run rate and nearly three billion sandboxes spun up.