FDE-the-Guidance-Book-of-Forward-Deployed-Engineer: The Manual for Turning AI Demos into Enterprise Systems
A Chinese open-source playbook for the engineer who sits between messy real-world operations, legacy data, and the product team that has to learn from both.
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