@swyx: calling it now FDE -> ODE -> PDE the existence of Forward Deployed Engineering and now Ordinary Deployed Engineering im…
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In a Twitter thread, @swyx predicts the evolution of deployment engineering roles (FDE to ODE to PDE), referencing the launch of Ode, a standalone AI enterprise services firm by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs.
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calling it now
FDE -> ODE -> PDE
the existence of Forward Deployed Engineering and now Ordinary Deployed Engineering implies that the next pokemon evolution is Partial Deployed Engineering
Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_): Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs launched their standalone AI enterprise services firm today. It is named Ode. And it just went live at https://t.co/FufUWeq4QA. No announcement from Anthropic yet, probably forthcoming.
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