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by milos-mandic
151 days ago
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Author here.
I’ve been a software engineer for about 12 years, but only more recently in a Forward Deployed–style role embedded with customers. This post is a diary of a typical week from a few weeks ago at an AI startup, working with 10 active clients. The week included:
– Roughly a 50/50 split between meetings and building (coding, prompt work, debugging)
– Heavy context switching across Slack/Teams, Linear, Notion, docs, etc.
– Unplanned firefighting when an upstream provider (Cloudflare) went down and all our client systems felt it Happy to answer questions about:
– How this work compares to “classic” SWE, solutions engineering, or consulting
– What skills actually matter day to day in this kind of role
– Tradeoffs: chaos, context switching, and owning both scoping and delivery
– When it makes sense for a company to introduce an FDE‑type role at all |
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