Series

Decoding FDE (Part 4): Run the fit check

A practical test of whether life on the deployment front line suits you or you’d be happier within sprinting distance of an IDE

Oct 8 • Tanya D'cruz and Henry Li

Decoding FDE (Part 3): Trace the deployment model

How Palantir’s playbook moved into AI companies and what China changed when it arrived

Oct 1 • Tanya D'cruz and Henry Li

Decoding FDE (Part 2): Debug the definition

Why FDE looks like consulting and software outsourcing and why the feedback loop says otherwise

Sep 24 • Tanya D'cruz and Henry Li

Decoding FDE (Part 1): Deploy the engineer

Why AI companies are embedding engineers inside customer teams, and what they discover when an API is no longer enough

Sep 17 • Tanya D'cruz and Henry Li

Inside the harness (Part 3): Change the tools

How the same ReAct loop becomes a coding agent and what happens when its context and capabilities no longer fit

Sep 11 • Tanya D'cruz and Henry Li

Inside the harness (Part 2): Give it a plan

How planning and nudges keep a ReAct loop from losing the plot

Sep 4 • Tanya D'cruz and Henry Li

Inside the harness (Part 1): Start with the loop

How a weather lookup becomes deep research without changing the ReAct machinery underneath

Aug 28 • Tanya D'cruz and Henry Li

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