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  "title": "Forward Deployed Engineering at Cursor — Pauline Brunet",
  "why_included": "Cursor’s FDE playbook treats agent deployment as co-development: choose measurable use cases, require customer ownership, avoid staff augmentation, and document the handoff.",
  "summary": "Cursor describes forward deployed engineers as senior technical operators who discover use cases, build in customer codebases, and relay recurring needs to product teams. Its initial hires have **5+ years of software engineering experience**.",
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    "The model is explicitly not training, routine rollout, or staff augmentation. Cursor also recommends declining poor-fit use cases and using integrators for work outside the FDE team’s strengths; the talk offers operating guidance, not comparative deployment data."
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  "published_at": "2026-07-14T21:00:06.000Z",
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