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  <subtitle>Forward Deployed Engineering, AI agents, evaluation, and practical software.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-07-21T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <name>Roxana del Toro</name>
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    <title>An engineer in Venture Capital</title>
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    <published>2026-07-20T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-07-21T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>What venture capital taught a Forward Deployed Engineer about technical diligence, product judgment, and building for the outcome.</summary>
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    <title>Stop Prompting, Start Engineering the Loop</title>
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    <published>2026-07-16T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-07-21T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Why AI coding agents need engineered loops, verification gates, and controlled delegation instead of endless prompting.</summary>
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    <title>A Frontend Loop Needs a Real App</title>
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    <published>2026-07-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-07-21T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>How an AI VRAM calculator became a realistic test for frontend coding agents, browser state, real math, and verification.</summary>
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    <title>The First (and Last) Intent-Inference Conference</title>
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    <published>2026-07-08T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-07-21T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>An AI intent-classification experiment using spaCy, three systems, and a human review loop to test what the models actually built.</summary>
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