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The $1M forward deployed engineer workflow, step by step

Greg Isenberg says some forward deployed engineers clear $1M a year, and he got one to walk through the five steps. Step two is deleting work, not automating it.

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Isenberg publishes the five-step workflow forward deployed engineers run

Greg Isenberg walked through how forward deployed engineers actually deploy agents inside Fortune 500 companies, saying some of them are paid over $1M a year and almost none of it is written down anywhere.

GREG ISENBERG
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They start by listening, not building.
Oct 1, 2026 · View on X

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Arvid Kahl's agent stack: adversarial reviews, a third agent as arbiter

Arvid Kahl laid out the rules he now runs agentic development by, after DHH argued there is no future where you manually review every line of agent code.

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You need adversarial agent reviews, you need automated testing, and maybe you spot check. That's it. From prompt to production!
Sep 28, 2026 · View on X

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