Module 0
Welcome to the World of FDEs
What FDEs do, leading without authority, communication, landing the role, and how this course gets you there.
- 3 topics so far
- About 38 min
- FDE roleLeadershipLanding a role
In this companion
Start here before day one: what a forward deployed engineer does, a workbench that's ready to build on, and how a language model works underneath.
The path through this module
| Topic | What you do | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1 | What an FDE does | The job: sit with a client, find the costly workflow, ship an AI system that fixes it. | 8 min |
| 0.2 | Your FDE workbench | The companion kit open in VS Code, and Claude as your tutor. | 15 min |
| 0.3 | How LLMs work | Tokens, context windows, why the model forgets, temperature and cost. | 15 min |
Start here: 0.1 What an FDE does