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Forward Deployed

by Noah Brier
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  • Forward Deployed, Episode 12: The Job Has Always Been Outcomes

    October 20, 2026 · 56 min

    Jesse Vincent joins me to talk about Superpowers, the software development process he built for coding agents, and what he’s learning from working alongside AI colleagues at Prime Radiant. Jesse has spent decades building software and…

  • Forward Deployed, Episode 11: Memory Is Only Half the Equation

    September 15, 2026 · 55 min

    Kasey Klimes joins me to talk about what happens when agents make production cheaper but make shared understanding harder to preserve. Kasey is the founder of Primitive, which describes itself as decision infrastructure for software teams…

  • Forward Deployed, Episode 10: The Medium Is the Agent

    September 1, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    Andrew McLuhan joins me to talk about what happens when AI is not only a tool that produces content but a new medium that changes how people perceive, work, and organize their lives. Andrew runs The McLuhan Institute, the organization he…

  • Forward Deployed, Episode 9: Brave New Work for Agents

    August 3, 2026 · 53 min

    Aaron Dignan joins me to talk about a pattern he recognized while building AI workflows at Plumb: “I’ve just created a newsroom.” Once agents have roles, decision rights, tools, inputs, and handoffs, you are not just designing software…

  • Forward Deployed, Episode 8: The Factory Has To Prove It Works

    July 21, 2026 · 51 min

    Justin McCarthy joins me to talk about what happened after he told a team to stop writing code—and then discovered they had to stop reading it too. Justin is the founder of Diffusion and the former co-founder and CTO of StrongDM. His team…

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  • Forward Deployed, Episode 7: The Diffusion Clock and the Conversion Clock

    June 30, 2026 · 52 min

    James Cham joins me for what is basically one of our recurring AI freakout calls, recorded. James is a partner at Bloomberg Beta and one of my favorite people to talk to when a new model or workflow suddenly makes the world feel slightly…

  • Forward Deployed, Episode 6: Market Mechanisms for Agents

    May 27, 2026 · 58 min

    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. Rohit brings together AI, markets, economics, organizational…

  • Forward Deployed, Episode 5: Aligning Agents

    May 7, 2026 · 52 min

    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. Taylor brings a…

  • Forward Deployed, Episode 4: The Special Forces Model

    March 21, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    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…

  • Forward Deployed, Episode 3: Context Engineering

    December 27, 2025 · 49 min

    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. Key Topics Covered - Context…

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

    November 17, 2025 · 50 min

    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…

  • Forward Deployed, Episode 1: The Bitter Lesson

    November 3, 2025 · 47 min

    Welcome to the first episode of Forward Deployed (YouTube), a podcast exploring the intersection of AI, software development, and the enterprise. We’re very excited to have you join us as we tackle the wild world of Forward Deployed…

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