AI for Software Development

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AI for Software Development

The 7 Layers of AI, Explained for Developers

You have probably seen the diagram: seven boxes stacked from Classical AI at the bottom to AGI at the top, with machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, and agentic AI in between. The diagram is useful. It separates terms that are often blurred together in product conversations. But it also suggests a progression that does…

Julio Lugo Aug 19, 2026 11 min read
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AI in Finance: Use Cases That Work in 2026

Three-quarters of CFOs are raising their technology budgets for 2026, with nearly half increasing spend by 10% or more, according to Gartner. The days of AI in finance being confined to a sandbox pilot are over. The mandate has shifted from “should we build this” to “why hasn’t this shipped yet.” The gap between organizations…

Damian Wasserman Aug 11, 2026 10 min read
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What Is a Forward Deployed Engineer? Role, Skills, Cost and How to Hire One (2026)

What is a forward deployed engineer? A forward deployed engineer (FDE) is a senior software engineer who works directly inside a customer’s or business’s real environment to build, integrate and ship software, usually AI, that makes a product work there. Instead of building one feature for many users, an FDE owns the outcome for one…

Damian Wasserman Jul 1, 2026 11 min read
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Salesforce Agentforce and Agentic AI Explained

Most people have heard of Salesforce. Far fewer can explain what it actually does — let alone what it’s become in the last two years. If you’ve searched “what is Salesforce” expecting a simple answer, here’s the honest version: it started as a CRM in 1999 and became the operational backbone of more than 150,000…

Damian Wasserman Jun 26, 2026 10 min read
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AI Vibe Coding With Cursor and Claude Code

Every developer has had this experience: you describe what you want to an AI model, it generates something that looks right, you run it, and something breaks in a way you didn’t expect. You iterate. It breaks differently. You iterate again. Twenty minutes later you’re not sure if the AI saved you time or cost…

Luiz Lima Jun 22, 2026 15 min read
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RAG vs. Fine-Tuning vs. Agents (2026)

Every team building with LLMs hits the same fork in the road eventually: should we use RAG, fine-tune the model, or build an agent? The three options are frequently discussed as if they’re interchangeable, but they solve fundamentally different problems. Picking the wrong one doesn’t just add cost, it creates architectural debt that’s painful to…

Damian Wasserman Mar 13, 2026 10 min read
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