Vas (Vasuman) from Varick Agents

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The Startup Ideas Podcast · FDE: The $1M/Year AI Job Explained · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

This is where it varies wildly company by company.

For example, at Palantir even, they have some FTEs that you're not actually writing code.

You're mostly spinning up workflows, like text.

You're chatting with the software of the Palantir ontology to create some dashboards.

And to the extent that you're writing code at SQL...

But there's other companies where you are fully writing production code, either on-site with a client or you'll go back and do this, but it varies wildly.

So there are some FTE roles where you're going to be writing production code.

You need to have a background in software engineering and really be confident in your ability there.

There's other FTE roles where it's far more technically light and you can chat to build on top of an existing platform.

So this is the part that varies wildly.

But either way, you need to have a very good understanding of the software.

Because when the client has an issue with, hey, this doesn't work right, or we have an issue in production, it's basically your ass on the line.

And you have to know who to call, what to do, and how to fix it.

In summary, FDEs are in demand because they control how intelligence enters the business, how it's used.

And that is where all the value is today in the AI age.

Everyone is coming to this consensus, and that's why FDEs are extremely valuable.

Yeah, that was a funny period in time.

I would argue we're still not fully out of that, but yeah, you're totally right.

I mean, this is a brave new world for everyone involved.

And I mean, I have horror stories of people, of like C-suite executives I've talked to who have blown through their entire $10 million project

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