The original title is: "The 30-day plan to break into Forward Deployed Engineering (2026)"

Short summary

A 30-day roadmap for breaking into Forward Deployed Engineering, distilling a Greg Isenberg video with Veric Agents. The FDE role demands both consultant-grade business judgment and production-grade AI engineering, with comp ranging from $150K to $1M/year. The plan covers auditing real enterprise workflows, building agents with guardrails and evals, and rehearsing both engineering and VP-level pitches to demonstrate evidence of capability before applying.

• •FDE requires best-of-both: consultant-grade communication plus production-grade AI engineering
• •30-day plan: audit a real workflow, build a guarded agent with evals, rehearse dual-track pitches
• •Exception handling and failure-mode design is where FDE value concentrates, not happy-path demos

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