Comment by throwaway5752
7 months ago
Forward Deployed Engineer = Consultant
I will not allow Palantir to extend their reality distortion field to me. They are consultants. They are also engineers. Other places call them FEs. But they didn't invent some new class of engineering, they just rebranded one.
>They are consultants. They are also engineers.
Good lord the egos must be massive.
Reality distortion, or they're just using military terminology?
One and the same. It would be like if I tried to call my product Tactical Software as a Service
It would still only be software as a service, but I would just brand it in a way to make it more appealing to certain buyer personas without any actual investment or commitment on my part.
What's wrong with that?
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When applying strange military terminology to something clearly non-military, is that not a distortion of reality?
“Forwarded deployed” is just national security jargon adopted by to a tech co, as I recall.