The FDE craze is just consulting rebranded, and customers may pay the price
springrod · x · 2026-10-19
The author argues the industry's fascination with Forward Deployed Engineers is strange: the consultant-to-FDE rebranding was brilliant marketing but less so for customers or the wider industry — effectively a return to 1990s-style consulting, expanded in a new blog post.
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