FDE in one line: "Skip the details, just tell me how many people I can cut"
oran_ge · x · 2026-09-03
An AI-industry joke distilling what a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) really means to buyers: "Don't tell me the details, just tell me how many people I can lay off" — a jab at how companies evaluate AI automation purely by headcount reduction.
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