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The FDE Handbook Appendix C Appendix 5 min read

Sources and Citation Notes

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Every citation in this book points to an entry in this list. Footnotes in the main text carry only t…

Every citation in this book points to an entry in this list. Footnotes in the main text carry only the source ID (e.g. [^c06]); the full bibliographic record lives here — one source, defined exactly once for the whole book.

To trace the basis for any given claim, note the ID in the main text and turn to the matching entry here. There are 38 entries in all — the book's entire evidence base; material never cited in the main text is not listed.

Source List

1. enterprise_agent_platform (open-source enterprise agent platform engineering project)

  • Source: GitHub · datagallery-lab/enterprise_agent_platform, Apache-2.0
  • Cited in: Chapters 9–14

2. Anthropic, "Building a New Enterprise AI Services Company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs"

  • Source: official announcement on anthropic.com, 2026-05-04
  • Cited in: Chapter 4

3. Accenture Newsroom, "Accenture Launches Microsoft Forward Deployed Engineering Practice to Help Organizations Scale AI Across the Enterprise"

  • Source: official Accenture press release, 2026-03-18
  • Cited in: Chapters 4, 26, and 27

4. Palantir Foundry, "AI FDE" product documentation

  • Source: palantir.com/docs/foundry/ai-fde
  • Cited in: Chapters 4, 5, 9, 10, and 28

5. Crossroads × Rolling AI, "A Conversation on FDE" (podcast)

  • Source: Xiaoyuzhou podcast, 2026-06-03
  • Cited in: Chapters 2, 15–17, 20, and 27

6. "AI Job Sense: Stop the Agent Rat Race"

  • Source: Xiaoyuzhou podcast, 2026-06-21
  • Cited in: Chapters 6, 10, 11, 15, 16, 18, and 23

7. Yilu Tongxing (一路瞳行), Episode 134: "From AI Assistant to Digital Employee"

  • Source: Xiaoyuzhou podcast, 2026-04-10
  • Cited in: Chapters 6, 7, 15, 17, and 24

8. Baseten, "What I Learned as a Forward-Deployed Engineer Working at an AI Startup" (Het Trivedi)

  • Source: Baseten blog, baseten.co
  • Cited in: Chapters 1, 18, 23, and 24

9. Hacker News, "A Week in the Life of a Forward Deployed Engineer" (10 customers, 50 hours)

  • Source: Hacker News thread
  • Cited in: Chapters 8, 23, and 24

10. "I Thought FDE Meant Fighting Alone at the Customer Site" — What Two Months on the Job Actually Looks Like

  • Source: note.com · AI Shift (Japanese)
  • Cited in: Chapters 6, 10, 23, and 26

11. Inside an Applied AI company (Pace long-form post)

  • Source: long-form post on X (formerly Twitter)
  • Cited in: Chapters 7–9, 11–14, 21, 22, and 26

12. Turning Point (破局点), Episode 31: "FDE, Chinese Style"

  • Source: Xiaoyuzhou podcast, ca. 2026-08
  • Cited in: Chapters 3, 5, 6, 15, 18, 20, 21, and 23–28

13. "Reflections on Palantir" (Nabeel Qureshi)

  • Source: nabeelqu.co, 2024-10
  • Cited in: Chapters 3, 6, 22, and 28

14. Silicon Valley 101, Episode 248: "China-Style FDE, with Alibaba Lingyang's Peng Xinyu"

  • Source: Xiaoyuzhou podcast, 2026-08
  • Cited in: Chapters 16, 18, 20, 21, and 26

15. Tencent Research Institute, AI Lens Roundtable, Episode 6: "FDE Non-Consensus Views and a Field Guide from Silicon Valley Founders"

  • Source: WeChat official account, 2026-07-08
  • Cited in: Chapters 2, 9, 12, 16, 18, 22, 24, 27, and 28

16. a16z: Box CEO on AI agents and why enterprises can't keep up

  • Source: YouTube, 2026-04-28
  • Cited in: Chapters 3, 5, 9, 10, and 16

17. Y Combinator: The FDE Playbook for AI Startups (Bob McGrew)

  • Source: YouTube, 2025-09-08, about 50 minutes
  • Cited in: Chapters 1, 5–7, 19, 21, 22, 24, and 26–28

18. Every engineer should do a stint in consulting (Hacker News thread)

  • Source: Hacker News, 2021
  • Cited in: Preface

19. @deployengineer (Bhaulik Patel), essay series

  • Source: X (formerly Twitter)
  • Cited in: Chapters 2, 3, 9, 17, 19, and 26

20. European remote FDE job description (reposted by @afahmy_dev)

  • Source: X (formerly Twitter)
  • Cited in: Chapter 1

21. "A million dollars in 30 days" course-marketing post (@gregisenberg)

  • Source: X (formerly Twitter)
  • Cited in: Chapter 25

22. "Doing FDE Work in Wuhan, Looking for a Partner" (linux.do thread)

  • Source: the linux.do community
  • Cited in: Chapters 18 and 27

23. @jamiecuffe's own account of the product line incubated inside Retool

  • Source: X (formerly Twitter)
  • Cited in: Chapter 28

24. "Anyone Out There Actually Doing FDE Work?" (linux.do thread)

  • Source: the linux.do community
  • Cited in: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 16, 18, 23, and 24

25. Switching from R&D to FDE: A Step Up, or Just Moving Into Implementation? (linux.do thread)

  • Source: the linux.do community
  • Cited in: Chapter 25

26. "FDE Engineer 101: Bridging the Gap Between AI and Business" (Chinese-language compilation video)

  • Source: Xiaohongshu, unattributed, saved as a local export
  • Cited in: Chapters 6, 8, 15, 24, and 27

27. linux.do post #2580046

  • Source: the linux.do community, 2026-07-14
  • Cited in: Chapters 1 and 3

28. Silicon Valley 101, Episode 240: "The Hottest New Job in Silicon Valley — FDE"

  • Source: YouTube; the guests are Cresta's FDE lead and the VP of enterprise business at Invisible
  • Cited in: Chapters 5, 6, 10, 11, 20, 23, 24, and 26

29. Palantir official documentation: the Ontology architecture and permission system

  • Source: palantir.com/docs/foundry/architecture-center/ontology-system
  • Cited in: Chapters 21 and 22

30. The Dynamo and the Computer: An Historical Perspective on the Modern Productivity Paradox

  • Source: Paul A. David, American Economic Review 80(2), 1990-05, pp. 355–361
  • Cited in: Chapter 4

31. Ali Ghodsi's guest lecture in Stanford's MS&E 435 course

  • Source: the course website's materials page, Week 4 (2026-04-24)
  • Cited in: Chapter 9

32. Tencent Research Institute, "FDE Model: Industry Observations and Practice"

  • Source: publicly shared Chinese-language reference material
  • Cited in: Chapters 1 and 3

33. "100 Questions About FDE" (open-source ebook)

34. Fan Bing, Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) (XDash open-source book)

  • Source: open-source ebook, v1.0.23, 2026-08
  • Cited in: Chapters 6–8, 12, 15–19, 21, and 25

35. Carlota Perez, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages

  • Source: published book (cited at second hand, via local reading notes)
  • Cited in: Chapter 28

36. MIT Project NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025

  • Source: research report from MIT Media Lab's Project NANDA, 2025-07
  • Cited in: Preface

37. Forward deployed engineer is AI's hottest job as OpenAI and Google race to hire

  • Source: reporting by The New Stack
  • Cited in: Chapter 4

38. We'd Better Watch Out (book review)

  • Source: Robert M. Solow, New York Times Book Review, 1987-07-12, p. 36
  • Cited in: Chapter 4