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THE $10B FDE BOOM

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Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

AI companies have committed $9.75 billion in 12 months to forward-deployed engineering. The FDE role is now an industry default rather than a Palantir signature. FDE investment is a moat as retraining on a competitor's stack is friction no manager wants.