OpenAI FDE team: make custom work obsolete by feeding customer learnings into products
colintjarvis · x · 2026-10-23
OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineer team explains its philosophy: "our job is to make our own custom work obsolete" — build with customers, then use what they learn to improve products and models, so each deployment gives the next customer a better starting point. The approach echoes Palantir's FDE culture and signals OpenAI's growing enterprise deployment org.
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