Forward Deployed

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 miscalibrated. Back in 2024, he and I recorded AI & The Enterprise with James Cham for the BRXND newsletter, which covered AI cycles, opinionated enterprise softw...

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 theory, and simulation. The conversation moves from principal-agent problems to enterprise world models, data-first ontologies, MarketBench, model self-knowled...

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 background that cuts across history, internet businesses, The End of Jobs , risk parity investing, complexity science, and recent deep work with Claude Code . The conve...

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 AI agents that actually work in the real world. Key Topics Covered * The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) model: How Palantir’s approach to embedding technical e...

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 engineering: Why Karpathy’s term matters more than prompt engineering for agents - Three core techniques: Reducing context, isolating context, and offloading co...

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 building and reveals a wild hook-based routing system using Cerebras at 3,000 tokens per second. Plus: Why Andreessen thinks AI isn’t the Internet redux. Key Topics...

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 engineering. We hope to make this a roughly bi-weekly show and look forward to inviting guests in the future. The idea is to dive deep into the realities of making t...