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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE): The New AI Engineer at the Frontline

Forward Deployed Engineers embed inside customer teams to turn messy enterprise data into shipped AI systems. Here’s how the role emerged, what FDEs actually do, and why it matters now.

September 2, 2026 · 12 min · 2510 words · martinuke0
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The Complete AI Agent Architecture: From Perception to Action

A field guide to designing production AI agents — from perception and reasoning loops to memory, tool routing, and the orchestration patterns that keep them reliable at scale.

September 2, 2026 · 12 min · 2528 words · martinuke0
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RAG vs CAG: What the Difference Actually Means in Production

A practical, architecture-first comparison of Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Cache-Augmented Generation, with patterns for combining both in production LLM systems.

September 2, 2026 · 10 min · 2068 words · martinuke0
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What If Your Coding Agent's Context Was Infinite?

Infinite context windows are the next frontier for coding agents. We unpack what truly changes in architecture, debugging, and developer workflow when agents stop forgetting — and why context size alone is not the same as context quality.

September 2, 2026 · 12 min · 2413 words · martinuke0
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Learning AI Engineering from Scratch in 2026: A Production-First Roadmap

Skip the tutorials and learn AI engineering the way it actually ships in production: pick a stack, build small, evaluate honestly, and deploy behind an API. Here’s the roadmap.

September 2, 2026 · 11 min · 2145 words · martinuke0
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