The FDE role decoded — ambiguity, customer deployment, owning outcomes, and the skills that separate a forward deployed engineer from a ticket-closer.
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FDE interviews are deliberately open-ended. Most engineers freeze because they are waiting for a spec that never comes. Here is the framework that removes the freeze — a repeatable system for reasoning through ambiguous problems out loud.
The bottleneck in AI has moved from building to deploying. The engineers who win in this era are not the ones who write the best code — they are the ones who close the gap between a working model and a working system in a customer's hands.