Articles on becoming a Forward Deployed Engineer

Plain explanations of the skills, and what the hiring data says. Every number links to its source.

• Forward Deployed Engineer jobs in 2026: what the data says

  7 min read

  Demand grew several-fold in 2025 and kept growing in India in 2026. Here is what the job posts ask for, and the experience number most courses leave out.

• What is RAG? Retrieval-augmented generation, explained with working code

  8 min read

  RAG lets an LLM answer from your own documents and cite them. Five steps, about 30 lines of Python, and the four places it usually breaks.

• What is an AI agent? The agent loop, explained with code

  8 min read

  An agent is a language model in a loop that asks your code to run tools. Here is the whole loop in about 40 lines of Python, and when not to use one.

• AI engineer roadmap 2026: what to learn, and in what order

  6 min read

  Six stages, each building on the last, checked against the skills that actually appear in job posts. Plus the mistakes that waste the most time.