💻 The Forward-Deployed Engineer 🤖 Playbook 📖
A forward-deployed engineer (FDE) is a software engineer who embeds inside a customer's environment, builds a production system on top of the product, and feeds lessons back to core engineering. The r…
A forward-deployed engineer (FDE) is a software engineer who embeds inside a customer's environment, builds a production system on top of the product, and feeds lessons back to core engineering. The r…
An ordinary engineer describes a two-year journey from using ChatGPT for simple queries to orchestrating multiple AI agents, connecting company knowledge systems via MCP, running local models in iOS a…
An agent loop is an iterative cycle that enables AI agents to reason, act, and adjust until a task is complete, distinguishing them from single-response models. The loop, often following the ReAct (Re…
A developer analyzed how four major AI search engines—ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google's AI Overviews—retrieve and cite sources, revealing distinct citation patterns. ChatGPT cites only about 1…
A developer compares four vector databases—pgvector, Qdrant, Pinecone, and Weaviate—for RAG workloads, explaining that the choice depends on specific workload metrics like vector count, filtering need…
A developer is building Loupe, a platform for practicing the skill of finding bugs in AI-generated code. The project was inspired by the realization that AI coding agents often produce code that passe…
A developer recounts their first week of truly learning Linux, covering fundamental concepts such as the kernel, user modes, file permissions, and essential commands. The post explains the difference …
AIKit introduces a launch demo checklist that transforms product updates into measurable funnels, moving beyond announcement copy to capture buyer intent. The system structures each update into five c…
Researchers introduced PACI (Partial Accumulation with Controlled Inconsistency), a method that accelerates asynchronous pipeline parallelism by up to 1.69× over synchronous flush baselines while main…
Cursor Composer 2.5 freezing is a widely reported issue where the AI agent gets stuck on 'Thinking...' during long sessions. Developers can resolve it by waiting, typing 'continue', reloading the wind…
An engineer explains how Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and agentic architectures bridge the gap between large language model demos and production systems. RAG…
NVIDIA released SkillSpector, an open-source security scanner designed to detect malicious code in AI agent skills before installation. The tool runs a two-stage pipeline combining static analysis wit…
A developer details their 2026 homelab stack, which runs across four machines including a Mac Mini, Ubuntu mini PC, Raspberry Pi 4, and Raspberry Pi 5 with Hailo 8 AI HAT. The stack uses Traefik for r…
A developer built a production ML inference API using FastAPI, Celery, and Docker. The architecture uses FastAPI for async HTTP handling, Celery for background task processing, and Redis for queue and…
A developer building with Claude Code discovered that AI task execution can be significantly sped up by splitting independent modules and running multiple agents in parallel. The approach requires a l…
A developer wired an LLM as a first-class Yjs peer using y-prosemirror and the standard awareness protocol, demonstrating that AI agents break three silent assumptions in collaboration stacks: through…
A developer building AgentLeash argues that as AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex become more autonomous, the bottleneck shifts from code generation to supervision and control. They …
A developer shares how participating in DEV challenges taught them that the real value is not winning badges but becoming part of a supportive community. They realized that building a place where deve…
An engineer at Anthropic shares a setup guide for Claude Cowork, emphasizing that the tool works best with a delegation mindset rather than chat-style prompting. Key recommendations include creating d…
A developer built EarthPulse AI, a carbon footprint awareness platform, during the Hack2Skill Virtual Hackathon. The app translates daily habits like commuting and energy use into visual data insights…