OpenAI FDE explains its playbook: build with customers, then fold learnings back into products
colintjarvis · x · 2026-10-23
OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) team shares how it works: make your own custom work obsolete—build with customers, then use what you learn to improve products and models, so each deployment gives the next customer a better starting point. Written by Luis Velasco and amplified by team members Zach Parent and Colin Jarvis, with a livestream to follow.
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