FDE Implementation: Semi-Manual Before Automation
yangyi · x · 2026-07-17
This post outlines an FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) deployment strategy: first run the workflow using a basic semi-manual approach within the business ecosystem, validate the loop's effectiveness, and finally productize it into a SaaS/CLI for Agents to automate, while capturing and visualizing data along the way.
The author highlights a few key principles:
- Semi-manual first, validate outcomes, then automate—never reverse this order.
- To determine true efficacy, look for 3 aligned signals; a one-off success is meaningless.
- Automating a process without deeply understanding the business details often leads to failure via "human hallucinations" or misjudgments.
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