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  "title": "How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Cognition — Jia Wu",
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  "summary": "Cognition says a three-month embedded deployment produced capacity comparable to **150% additional headcount** and cut delivery timelines by about **82%**. Another cited customer reportedly merged roughly **10× more** work per subscriber.",
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    "meaning": "This supplies unusually large, business-facing estimates for the value of embedded coding agents and sharpens adoption evaluation around accepted, maintained delivery rather than activity. It also narrows how confidently those gains can be generalized: the figures are vendor-presented, lack calculation details and baselines, and therefore establish a measurement direction more strongly than a transferable benchmark.",
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        "title": "The Dirty Secret of Forward Deployed Engineering — Natalie Meurer, Sierra",
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        "title": "ReviewDebt: a practical framework for scoring every pull request — Sachin Gupta, Ebay",
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        "title": "ScarfBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Enterprise Java Framework Migration",
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