Forward Deployed

At the intersection of AI, software development, and the enterprise. www.forwarddeployed.com

Forward Deployed is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Forward Deployed, Episode 6: Market Mechanisms for Agents

  May 27, 202658 minS0

  <p>Welcome to episode six of Forward Deployed. Noah sits down with Rohit Krishnan, author of Strange Loop Canon, to talk about what happens when we take the word “agent” seriously.</p><p>Rohit brings together AI, markets, economics, organizational theory, and simulation. The conversation moves from principal-agent problems to enterprise world models, data-first ontologies, MarketBench, model self-knowledge, and the harder question underneath all of this: how do we build agentic systems that can coordinate, learn, and act inside messy organizations?</p><p>Key Topics Covered</p><p>* Agents as an economic problem: Why principal-agent theory, markets, and organizational design matt...

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  Forward Deployed, Episode 5: Aligning Agents

  May 7, 202652 minS0

  <p>Welcome to episode five of Forward Deployed. Noah sits down with Taylor Pearson to continue the conversation about how we align agents, and why the best models may come from outside traditional software engineering.</p><p>Taylor brings a background that cuts across history, internet businesses, The End of Jobs, risk parity investing, complexity science, and recent deep work with Claude Code. The conversation moves from firms and transaction costs to Toyota, military doctrine, memory, skills, and the problem of getting agents to work toward the right goal.</p><p>Key Topics Covered</p><p>* Aligning agents: Why the...

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  Forward Deployed, Episode 4: The Special Forces Model

  Mar 21, 20261h 1mS0

  <p>Welcome to episode four of Forward Deployed. Noah sits down with Chris Papasadero to explore the deep parallels between Special Forces operations, enterprise software deployment, and creative direction—and what all of it means for building AI agents that actually work in the real world.</p><p>Key Topics Covered</p><p>* The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) model: How Palantir’s approach to embedding technical experts mirrors Special Forces doctrine</p><p>* Force multiplication: Why Green Berets are designed to produce outsized output from minimal input — and what that means for AI agents</p><p>* Comfort with ambiguity: The Specia...

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  Forward Deployed, Episode 3: Context Engineering

  Dec 26, 202549 minS1

  <p>Welcome to episode three of Forward Deployed. Noah and Lance dive deep into context engineering—the art and science of filling context windows with just the right information for agents to take the next action.</p><p>Key Topics Covered</p><p>- Context engineering: Why Karpathy’s term matters more than prompt engineering for agents</p><p>- Three core techniques: Reducing context, isolating context, and offloading context to file systems</p><p>- Skills vs MCPs: Why progressive disclosure beats loading everything into context</p><p>- Claude Diary: Building agent memory through reflection and evolving CLAUDE.md<...

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  Forward Deployed, Episode 2: Claude Code Skills and the Progressive Disclosure Problem

  Nov 16, 202550 minS0

  <p>Welcome back to episode 2 of Forward Deployed. This week Noah and Lance dive deep into Claude Code skills, a deceptively simple feature that’s changing how we think about building AI agents. Noah walks through the Alephic CLI he’s been building and reveals a wild hook-based routing system using Cerebras at 3,000 tokens per second.</p><p>Plus: Why Andreessen thinks AI isn’t the Internet redux.</p><p>Key Topics Covered</p><p>* Claude Code skills and the progressive disclosure problem</p><p>* How Noah built a hook to solve the 10% skill hit rate</p><p>* Tier 1 vs Tier 2...

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