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The Forward Deployed Engineer
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The Outer Loop (Paving Gravel Roads Into Scalable Software)
July 23, 2026 · 41 minIn this episode, we dive into Chapter 9 of The Forward Deployed Engineer: Architecting the Last Mile of Enterprise AI by Sho Shimoda. We explore the "Outer Loop"—the strategic phase that begins the moment a deployment goes into production…
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The Inner Loop (Prototype to Production)
July 22, 2026 · 44 minIn this episode, we dive into Chapter 8 of The Forward Deployed Engineer: Architecting the Last Mile of Enterprise AI by Sho Shimoda. We explore the "Inner Loop"—the critical, iterative phase of an engagement that bridges the gap between…
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Customer Discovery and the Messy Reality (Solving the "Weird Tuesday" Problem)
July 10, 2026 · 27 minIn this episode, we dive into Chapter 7 of The Forward Deployed Engineer: Architecting the Last Mile of Enterprise AI by Sho Shimoda [1, 2]. We explore the crucial first two weeks of an FDE engagement, known as the discovery phase, and why…
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The Soft Stack (Why Diplomacy is a Technical Skill)
July 9, 2026 · 42 minIn this episode, we unpack Chapter 6 of The Forward Deployed Engineer: Architecting the Last Mile of Enterprise AI by Sho Shimoda [1, 2]. We explore why the FDE role is the single function in the AI industry where "soft skills" often…
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The AI and Agentic Frontier (Moving Beyond Chatbots)
July 8, 2026 · 39 minIn this episode, we dive into Chapter 5 of The Forward Deployed Engineer: Architecting the Last Mile of Enterprise AI by Sho Shimoda [1]. We explore the rapidly shifting technological landscape of enterprise AI and why the skills that…
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The Technical Bar (Why FDEs Are the Ultimate Escalation)
July 7, 2026 · 39 minIn this episode, we unpack Chapter 4 of The Forward Deployed Engineer: Architecting the Last Mile of Enterprise AI by Sho Shimoda. We explore why an FDE must be, first and last, an engineer—and why their technical bar actually needs to be…
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Where the FDE Sits in the Org (Avoiding the Classification Mistake)
May 25, 2026 · 52 minIn this episode, we unpack Chapter 3 of The Forward Deployed Engineer: Architecting the Last Mile of Enterprise AI by Sho Shimoda. We explore why the first decision a company makes about its Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) function is…
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The Last-Mile Problem in Enterprise AI
May 25, 2026 · 46 minIn this episode, we dive into Chapter 2 of The Forward Deployed Engineer: Architecting the Last Mile of Enterprise AI by Sho Shimoda. We explore the concept of the "last mile"—a term borrowed from telecommunications and logistics to…
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What is a Forward Deployed Engineer? (The Operator's Contradiction)
May 25, 2026 · 45 minIn this episode, we dive into Chapter 1 of The Forward Deployed Engineer: Architecting the Last Mile of Enterprise AI by Sho Shimoda. We explore the "Operator's Contradiction"—the paradox where operations-heavy businesses, like BPOs, are…
About the show
AI works. The question is whether the team that bought it has ever sat at the workstation that's supposed to use it.
The Last Mile is a podcast about the hardest part of enterprise AI — the gap between a generalizable model and the messy reality of a specific customer's operations. Frameworks, war stories, and the economics of making deployments actually land.