Ashwin Sreenivas
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first heard Jul 2026
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thing, also again, not to pick on tech Twitter, to be like, oh, like, you know, we need to bring back the forward deployed engineer and, you know, every company is hiring tons of forward deployed engineers.
I think this is a trap, actually.
Oh, say more.
Okay.
My view on this is that forward deployed engineers are necessary, are newly necessary for early stage AI companies because the workflows are new.
right?
If you're building a SaaS company five years ago, most SaaS products are pretty well explored, right?
Like you roughly know what the user is trying to do.
And your job is maybe come with a slightly cleaner workflows, but broadly, you know, what the user is trying to do with a design app or a CRM or something like that, because those workflows have been explored.
With AI products,
Nobody knows what the workflows are because nobody's used these things before.
So a forward-deployed engineer in this case is honestly just embedding with the customer to learn the workflow for the first time as the customer learns the workflow for the first time.
And they're kind of paving the road.
They're kind of laying out the track as they see which way the train is going in a way.
But long-term...
I think they should just be building product, right?
Like once you know what the workflow is, you should not be relying on forward deployed engineers anymore because once you know what the workflow is, if you can productize it, you should productize it and then become, you know, a typical company with these scaling properties of a tech company.
And if you can't do that, then you're just building a glorified consulting structure.
Yeah.
If you look at a lot of our forward deployed teams,
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