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2026-06-06
UPSTREAM TITLE: Three Weeks Inside Codex as a Forward Deployed Engineer
SHORT SUMMARY: An Airbyte forward deployed engineer described using Codex with GPT-5.5 across customer work, bug bashes, documentation, and coding. The post is a fresh practitioner view of how AI coding-agent UX maps onto the varied daily workflow of an FDE.
OUTLET: Airbyte
2026-06-06
UPSTREAM TITLE: Connecting Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) into the end-to-end product lifecycle – how IFS does it
SHORT SUMMARY: diginomica interviewed IFS chief product and customer officer Cathie Hall about tying forward deployed engineers into product, support, consulting, and customer-success loops. The article argues FDEs can improve agentic AI deployments only if their customer work feeds back into enterprise-grade product operations rather than creating isolated custom builds.
OUTLET: diginomica
LINK: https://diginomica.com/connecting-forward-deployed-engineers-product-lifecycle-ifs?amp
2026-06-05
UPSTREAM TITLE: 20% more cross-sells in 90 days: The power of forward-deployed engineers in contact centers
SHORT SUMMARY: TELUS Digital described a CX-focused FDE model that embeds AI, data, and CX specialists directly in contact-center workflows to improve adoption of AI tools. It reported client deployment results including 20%+ higher targeted cross-sell conversion, 15%+ lower average handle time, and 5%+ higher first-contact resolution within the first quarter.
OUTLET: TELUS Digital