FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEERING 101

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) is the hottest role in tech right now. The FDE is a highly skilled engineer who can understand customers' problems very deeply, write code, and communicate business impact to non-technical decision makers. It is a role that requires the engineer to be on-site with customers. This article explains why Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and other AIs are looking for FDEs, and how workers can capitalize on this demand.