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.
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.
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.
My KFinder app was finally published in the App Store.
A quick note to self re: how to generate unix timestamps.
How I used Mem to create a blog post.
A retrospective of how I moved files between Git repos while preserving history.
Further PoC work to demonstrate producing Kafka messages from Inspire Scaler.