Top Forward Deployed Engineers don't win by building faster. They win by refusing to build until the problem has earned its name — and you can encode that habit into a Claude skill in one prompt.
Reaching for a solution the instant a request lands feels productive. It's also how good engineers end up building the wrong thing well. Here's how to turn the pause into a skill you can run every time.
What I told the SVCACA board about where AI agents have been, where they are now, and the methodology I use to think and create with AI — not let it think for me.
Three years of AI agent evolution, compressed into one board keynote — chat window, coding automation, harness — and the methodology I actually use to think, create, and decide with AI, not let it decide for me.
CEOs and CFOs aren't seeing AI move the P&L. It's not because they're short-sighted — it's because excitement about the technology and clarity about the business problem are two different things.
Adoption is up. Earnings impact is flat. The gap isn't a leadership failure — it's a mismatch between what's exciting to build and what the business actually needs solved.
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When intelligence gets cheap, conviction and agency become your only real currency.
For thirty years, the résumé was a proxy for something real. AI just broke that currency. What's left is what was never about accumulation in the first place — what you believe, what you value, and what you build.
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The CRM was built to store records, not carry relationships forward. The variable was always the habit of catching signal.
Hand the same software to two founders: one builds a compounding network while the other lets it fossilize. The CRM was never the variable. The habit wrapped around it was.