Tag: #career
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 229 posts
Growing into a Harness Engineer — Why the Job Exists and What to Practice
The title harness engineer is still rare in job postings, but the work already exists in every team shipping agents. The final part 8 of the harness engineering series covers why this job emerged, how existing software s
2026-08-12 · 4 min read #llm#agent#harness-engineering#하네스엔지니어링#AI에이전트Nine Korean Reads on Money for Engineers — After Removing Everything That Sells a Product, Only the Arithmetic Was Left
Year-end tax settlement, national insurance deductions, stock option taxation, severance pay, freelance income tax. These are topics every Korean developer searches at least once, and the results are dominated by refund
2026-08-12 · 10 min read #큐레이션#korean-blogs#money#tax#payrollEight Korean Posts on Changing Jobs and Negotiating Salary — Chosen for Process, Not Success Stories
There is no shortage of job-change write-ups, but most preserve only the outcome. This post collects eight Korean-language pieces that record the process in order: three full accounts from decision to first day, one on w
2026-08-12 · 8 min read #큐레이션#korean-blogs#career#job-change#salary-negotiationTranslating "It Is Slow" into an Engineering Problem — FDE Customer Communication
Customers do not file bug reports. They file pain reports: "it is slow," "it does not work," "sometimes it acts strange." One of the core skills of a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) is the questioning technique that tran
2026-08-12 · 5 min read #career#fde#forward-deployed-engineer#communication#customer-successFrom Backend, DevOps, or Data Engineering to FDE — a Six-Month Transition Roadmap
Most people weighing a move into Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) work start from one of three places: backend, DevOps/SRE, or data engineering. The good news is that whichever it is, you already hold about half of the FD
2026-08-12 · 5 min read #career#fde#forward-deployed-engineer#career-transition#roadmapWhat Is a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) — the Engineer Stationed at the Customer Site
Palantir invented the title, and now OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to hire for it: Forward Deployed Engineer, or FDE. This post pins down what the role actually is — an engineer whose coordinate system is the customer
2026-08-12 · 6 min read #career#fde#forward-deployed-engineer#ai#job-searchWhy PoCs Never Reach Production — Success Criteria, Security Review, Handover
A large share of PoCs that earn applause at the demo die quietly anyway — not for lack of technology, but because there were no success criteria, the security review started last, no champion existed, or the gap between
2026-08-12 · 6 min read #career#fde#forward-deployed-engineer#poc#productionThe FDE Incident Diagnosis Playbook — Six Steps from Access to Report
The decisive difference between an incident on your own service and one at a customer site is that the latter starts from knowing nothing. That is why a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) needs a fixed order before needing
2026-08-12 · 6 min read #career#fde#forward-deployed-engineer#incident-response#debuggingThe FDE Skill Map — Baselines, Working Levels, and Check Questions for 8 Domains
A map of the skills a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) actually needs, drawn across eight domains: Linux, networking, Kubernetes, databases, auth and security, observability, cloud and infrastructure, and customer communi
2026-08-12 · 6 min read #career#fde#forward-deployed-engineer#skills#roadmapThe First 90 Days as an FDE — Mapping, Solo Tickets, and a Led Mission
Onboarding as a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) means adapting to two unfamiliar environments at once — your own company and the customer site — which is why it needs more deliberate design than a regular engineering onb
2026-08-12 · 5 min read #career#fde#forward-deployed-engineer#onboarding#checklistFDE Interview Prep — Diagnosis Scenarios, Customer Simulations, Case Studies
A Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) interview often replaces algorithm puzzles with incident-diagnosis scenarios on an unfamiliar system, and culture-fit questions with an angry-customer role play — because what it measure
2026-08-12 · 5 min read #career#fde#forward-deployed-engineer#interview#job-searchWhen Friction Disappears, Taste Does Not Remain — the Path to Growing Taste Disappears
Taste Is All That Is Left, the essay that drew attention in August 2026, says that as making things got cheap, the only ability left scarce is judging what is worth making. This post agrees with the diagnosis and then go
2026-08-09 · 8 min read #career#craft#ai#code-review#mentoringWhy the Claim That Code Was Never the Hard Part Makes People So Angry
An essay that reached the top of Hacker News in August 2026 argues that saying code was never the hard part is an insult to every programmer. This post agrees with the rebuttal but locates the cause somewhere else. That
2026-08-09 · 8 min read #career#craft#ai#engineering-culture#skillsPersuasive Writing — The Structure That Gets Design Docs and RFCs Approved
For anyone writing design docs, RFCs, proposals, or incident follow-up recommendations. This post covers putting the decision you want at the very top instead of the order in which you solved the problem, why showing the
2026-08-02 · 14 min read #career#writing#persuasion#design-doc#engineeringHow to Handle Objections — Telling Factual, Value, and Status Disagreements Apart
Objections are the part most people learning persuasion skip. This post covers steelmanning as a working procedure — restating the other side's argument better than they did, out loud, and getting it confirmed — why rais
2026-08-02 · 14 min read #career#persuasion#communication#conflict#teamworkThe Structure of Persuasion — It's Sequence, Not Eloquence, That Moves People
Persuasion fails at the level of structure long before it fails at the level of phrasing. This post is organized around four axes: establishing a shared premise before you make your claim, putting your strongest evidence
2026-08-02 · 17 min read #career#persuasion#communication#influence#psychologyThe Illusion of Talent — What the Practice Research Actually Says, and What Actually Compounds
In late July 2026, "The Illusion of Talent" climbed to the top of GeekNews. The title makes it sound like a scientific dispute about talent and practice, but the original is a personal essay about a junior developer's ca
2026-07-31 · 14 min read #career#deliberate-practice#expertise#psych-papers#mindsetThe Truth About Becoming a Manager — It Is Not a Senior Engineer With Meetings Added
"The truth about being a manager," posted to GeekNews in late July 2026, is a personal-experience essay that lists fourteen items. This article explains, structurally, why those items keep recurring. The essence of the m
2026-07-31 · 14 min read #career#engineering-management#leadership#ic-to-manager#feedback-loopHow Engineers Should Read a Go-to-Market Playbook — Where Distribution Beats Product Quality
In late July 2026, an NFX post titled "Upgraded Go-to-Market Playbook" showed up on GeekNews. It is a perspective piece written by a VC, and the numbers inside are curated anecdotes, not a sample. This post translates th
2026-07-31 · 14 min read #startup#go-to-market#product-led-growth#developer-tools#careerHow Not to Waste a One-on-One — Make It Your Meeting, Not a Status Report
Thirty minutes a week comes to twenty-six hours a year, and most of it drains into status updates that three lines of Slack could carry. This post covers the principle Andy Grove set out in High Output Management in 1983
2026-07-26 · 11 min read #career#management#one-on-one#feedback#communication