New AIFN Insights essay, published today: The Forward Deployed Engineer and the AIAP Graduate: Where the Gap Is.

OpenAI ran a three-day FDE bootcamp with AI Singapore this week, with my engineers and AIAP apprentices in the room. The essay sets out what an FDE actually does, why the AIAP apprentice has been doing a version of that job since 2018, and the three gaps I name: software engineering mileage, the frontier stack, and owning the customer conversation alone.

Read it here: https://aifirstnation.org/insights/the-forward-deployed-engineer-and-the-aiap-graduate/

If you are an AIAP graduate or apprentice, tell me whether the three gaps match your experience.

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