Category: Building with AI
Exploring AI agents, tools, and workflows for small businesses and solo operators.
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What Forward Deployment Engineer Means To Me
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Forward Deployment Engineer is a messy title because the work is messy. To me, it means operational capability under uncertainty: understanding systems, communicating with humans, integrating tools, debugging chaos, and moving toward outcomes.
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Don’t Mistake Niceness for Weakness
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Don’t Mistake Niceness for Weakness Don’t mistake niceness for weakness. That idea sits underneath more client work, team friction, and boundary problems than most people want to admit. There is a weird thing that happens when you are good to people. If you are patient with clients, some people assume you are soft. If you…
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The Deep Generalist Was Built the Hard Way
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My career and life have been all over the place at times. That used to look scattered. Now I think it trained the exact skill AI makes more valuable.
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Every Agent Still Needs a Human Harness
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AI agents do not remove the human. They change which human matters. Right now, the person keeping the agent useful is still the whole game.
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Transparency Is Coming Whether You Like It Or Not
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AI is making claims easier to check, options easier to compare, and fake authority harder to hide. That is bad for gatekeepers and good for people who actually know the work.
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The Part Everyone Skips Is Still Communication
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Communication still decides what gets built, what gets ignored, and what turns into a problem. AI made output easier, but it did not replace judgment.
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Customer Service Is Still the Moat
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The customer service moat is not a tool or tactic. It is clear communication, client education, follow-through, and care turned into behavior.
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The Code Is Cheap Mind Virus
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AI did not kill quality. It exposed who never had standards. Code got cheap, taste got expensive, and judgment is still the bottleneck.
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Build the Tool That Makes the Mess Smaller
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Build your own tools when repeated friction keeps slowing real work down. FitFO and Pelican show how useful products start by making the mess in front of you smaller.
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Redesigns Are Not Blank Slates
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Most redesigns are not clean starts. They are inherited systems full of hidden DNS, hosting, form, and subdomain risk. This is why website redesign discovery matters before launch.
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