Comment by megadragon9

This reminded me of a question I've been thinking about lately. 6 months ago, I was thinking this Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) is a temporary thing until companies build enough expertise and this expertise fully permeate the job market. But now I have a weird feeling that this FDE job category is here to stay in the long-term. There seems to be some parallels to the system integration folks back in the 2000s when internet adoption just kicked off. OpenAI and other AI companies invested pretty heavily in their FDE efforts, that's along side their token business. Perhaps a lower risk & profitable strategy than starting companies themselves?