Forward-deployed engineer: the AI job PMs can land without coding
PawelHuryn · x · 2026-11-12
Paweł Huryn describes the forward-deployed engineer role: visiting customers, connecting AI agents to their data and systems, and shipping.
He argues PMs already have half the job — discovery, customer understanding, business impact, communication — and the missing half is driving impact with agents, best proven by having actually built something.
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