Five people around a wooden table, each with an open laptop.
· 6 min read · ai, llm, evaluation

What a Forward Deployed Engineer and an Applied AI Engineer do

I read five postings open in September 2026 at Palantir, OpenAI, and Anthropic. They describe the same arc, from an open question to production adoption, and they ask for two deliverables: the customer's system and what it teaches the product back home.

Network cables organized in a datacenter rack.
· 9 min read · ai, llm, evaluation

Laya has open weights. You own the operations

Laya is a non-autoregressive decision model under Apache 2.0. It trades the convenience of a hosted API for control over running, evaluating, and specializing the model.

Old railway signal box beside the tracks.
· 8 min read · ai, llm, evaluation

Jev guarantees the shape, not the decision

Jev trades text generation for typed decisions with probabilities. The idea works when the answer space is closed, the question is narrow, and code stays in control.

Two people working side by side at screens with code.
· 8 min read · ai, code-review, developer-experience

When Commits Scale Faster Than Reviews

Code volume is growing faster than human review capacity. The problem is not using AI, it is pretending review still costs the same.

· 16 min read · ai, agent, go

Building Real AI Agents with the Copilot SDK in Go

If you follow the GitHub Copilot ecosystem, you have probably heard of *.agent.md files. They are great for simple things, basically a boosted prompt that runs inside Copilot

· 5 min read · developer-experience, best-practices, tooling

3 Not-So-Intuitive Principles in Developer Experience (DX)

Engineering leaders and developers are constantly searching for more productivity. The pressure to deliver faster is relentless, but the path to that speed is rarely clear.