{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Tom Sullivan \u2014 Writing","description":"Long-form essays on building agentic AI systems you can trust: where they break, and how to engineer around it.","link":"https:\/\/tomsullivan.dev\/","language":"en-us","item":{"title":"Forward-Deployed Engineering Is New. The Work Underneath It Is Not.","link":"https:\/\/tomsullivan.dev\/writing\/fde-before-the-label\/","guid":"https:\/\/tomsullivan.dev\/writing\/fde-before-the-label\/","description":"Before forward-deployed engineering had its current label, implementation engineers and consultants were already walking operations, translating domain rules, and making software survive contact with reality.","pubDate":"Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT"}}}