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LatestStrategyJuly 16, 2026 · 15 min read

The AI Forward-Deployed Engineer: Why the Fastest-Shipping AI Teams Embed Engineers, Not Advisors

An LLM demo takes an afternoon. A production LLM system takes an embedded engineer. The forward-deployed engineer is now the delivery primitive behind almost every enterprise AI system that actually ships.

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SecurityJuly 16, 2026 · 10 min read

Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection — And Most Defenses Are Security Theater

Input filters and "ignore previous instructions" detectors create a false sense of safety. Prompt injection is an architecture problem, not a string-matching one. Here's a defense that holds against real adversaries.

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