AI FDEs Must Turn Production Failures into Evals, Release Gates, and Evidence
ryanorban · x · 2026-09-13
Drawing on Palantir's playbook, the author contrasts classic FDEs—who converted customer exceptions into product features—with AI-era FDEs, who must convert production failures into evals, release gates, workflow boundaries, and evidence for model changes. A distinct engineering discipline, he argues.
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