Writing
Field notes from the deployment crisis.
Every company is hiring forward deployed engineers. Almost none have built the system those engineers feed — so each deployment still starts from zero. These are notes on the system the role outran, by Cory Haldeman.
On the system
The forward-deployment wedge.
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Consulting is Dead
Consulting is dead. Long live consulting.…
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Frontier Alliances
"Frontier Alliances" is the most accurate name in enterprise AI right now. Not the cleverest. The most accurate.…
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Talent Crisis
The efficiency gains of 2026 become the talent crisis of 2030.…
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Context Graphs
The hardest part of enterprise work isn’t the work.…
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The FDE Boom Can't Save The AI Value Narrative
The FDE boom can't change the AI value narrative by itself.…
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FDE Fellowship
Last week Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced an FDE fellowship.…
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The Power of an FDE
The power of an FDE isn't in the role. It's in the system it feeds.…
On the transformation
The wider shift.
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