The Pulse: Forward deployed engineering heats up again
Massive demand for the role at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The latest version of the FDE role looks like the consultant / solution architect role done by many early-junior engineers.
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Posts from May 24, 2026
4 posts from engineering leaders published May 24, 2026, by Gergely Orosz, Jason Cohen, Cassidy Williams and 1 more.
Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead
Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
A simple clustering algorithm for lists
I nerd-sniped myself deeply when sorting baby toys and came up with a fun pattern for doing so!
Building Pi With Pi
Pi is now part of Earendil, but in the important sense it is still Mario’s project. He has been living with its issue tracker longer than I have, and he has been exposed to the weirdness of the new form of agent traffic in Open Source projects for longer too. This post is mostly…