Robert Tucker

Twenty years building customer-communications integration. Writing in public about AI-native work for the technical middle.

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Published on: June 3, 2026

The senior generalist as Forward Deployed Engineer

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Forward Deployed Engineer is having a moment. The discourse is missing a cohort that has been doing audit-integrate-deploy-stay work for twenty years. AI did not create the role. It unblocked us.

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May 25, 2026
Tool surface is downstream of workflow
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I shipped one tool with a parameter. Eighteen hours later I split it into three. A day after that, I deleted one of the three. The lesson is that tool surface follows real use, not design.
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Published on
May 20, 2026
Turning the lights back on
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Reopening the blog as a generalist-integrator figuring out what AI means for people like me — the ones who connect things rather than ship from inside a single platform team.
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Published on
November 23, 2024
There's an app for that
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My KFinder app was finally published in the App Store.
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Published on
July 13, 2023
Generating Unix Timestamps for API Requests
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A quick note to self re: how to generate unix timestamps.
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Robert Tucker

The senior generalist as Forward Deployed Engineer

Tool surface is downstream of workflow

Turning the lights back on

There's an app for that

Generating Unix Timestamps for API Requests