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Job postings for the forward deployed engineer role grew more than tenfold in a year and about one in ten engineers wants the job. The title is not the hard part; the test is.
For founders and engineering leaders hiring or defining the roleRead the noteNote / 2026-09-11METR's February 2026 update lists four reasons its AI productivity experiment stopped working. Each one is what changes inside a team once agent adoption is real.
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