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Thoughts on AI, building software, and what comes next.

The latest letter12 October 2026
The K-curve: a flat pre-AI line splits at audit, redesign, evals and deploy.
003 / AI & business

How FDE actually works

Forward-deployed engineering isn’t one skill. It’s four steps: audit, redesign, evals, deploy. Here’s what each one means, using the rental building I run.

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002 / AI & business

The model is the easy part

001 / AI & software

When everyone can build software, what will software engineers build?