Forward-deployed engineers can lock customers into one AI vendor
bendee983 · x · 2026-07-21
AI companies benefit because forward-deployed engineers make customers safer bets, while customers become locked into a single vendor.
The author argues for independent AI engineers instead: people who are not tied to one lab and can help design the best harness + model combination for each use case, instead of turning implementation into vendor dependency.
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