Forward Deployed Engineer: What It Is and How to Become One
AI's newest high-paying role is not simply a software-engineering job with a customer-facing title. Forward-deployed engineers find the leverage point inside a real workflow, build and inspect the sma...
26 Aug 26min
Stripe Paid $7.5 Billion For OpenRouter. You Are Living In The Age Of Startups.
Stripe's reported acquisition of OpenRouter is a bet on two curves changing at once: more companies are forming, and software agents are beginning to use economic infrastructure directly.Nate Jones ex...
24 Aug 25min
GLM-5.3 Setup in Claude Code and Codex: Cut Your Bill
Nate Jones explains how GLM-5.3 can run inside familiar Claude Code and Codex workflows, what project context carries across, what conversation history does not, and why a cheaper model can still beco...
21 Aug 20min
One Cancelled Gym Class. That's How Agent Swarm Attacks Start.
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when AI agents interact with software, credentials, and other people’s systems?The common story is that ...
17 Aug 21min
Nvidia's $500B AI Financing Plan: Bubble or Buildout?
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening behind NVIDIA's plan to help mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure?The common story is t...
16 Aug 16min
Grok Bot Review: Is the $200 AI Agent Team Worth It?
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/AI agents are finally getting easier to use — but Grok Bot is expensive, broad by design, and more capable than its friendly lit...
14 Aug 18min
AI Agent Context Files: How to Steer Long Projects
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when an AI agent has access to more context than it can use well?The common story is that better AI work...
12 Aug 23min
Anthropic's Model Attacked Two Strangers On GitHub. Nobody Asked It To.
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when AI agents begin coordinating, preserving knowledge, and acting outside the boundaries their operato...
11 Aug 28min
