Forward Deployed, Episode 7: The Diffusion Clock and the Conversion Clock

James Cham joins Noah to talk Fable, model routing, CLI-first work, AI-native meetings, and why the real signal is often a small spark in a small place…

Jun 30 • Noah Brier

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51:52

May 2026

Forward Deployed, Episode 6: Market Mechanisms for Agents

Rohit Krishnan joins Noah to explore enterprise world models, MarketBench, and what economics can teach us about aligning and coordinating AI agents.

May 27 • Alephic HQ

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1

58:03

Forward Deployed, Episode 5: Aligning Agents

Taylor Pearson joins Noah to explore what organization theory, complexity science, military doctrine, and markets can teach us about building agentic…

May 7 • Alephic HQ

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2

51:54

A Timeline of AI Progress

Thinking about what matters and what doesn't in AI.

May 5 • Noah Brier

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10 Links for Saturday, May 2

The Goal, Flue, postmortems, DESIGN.md, and variance. Welcome to the weekend.

May 2 • Noah Brier

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March 2026

Forward Deployed, Episode 4: The Special Forces Model

What Green Berets, Palantir's FDEs, and film showrunners teach us about building agentic systems

Mar 21 • Alephic HQ

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1:00:49

December 2025

Forward Deployed, Episode 3: Context Engineering

Why Karpathy’s term matters more than prompt engineering for agents

Dec 27, 2025 • Alephic HQ

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49:08

November 2025

Forward Deployed, Episode 2: Claude Code Skills and the Progressive Disclosure Problem

Noah walks through the Alephic CLI he’s been building and reveals a wild hook-based routing system using Cerebras at 3,000 tokens per second.

Nov 17, 2025 • Alephic HQ, Noah Brier, and Lance Martin

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49:49

Forward Deployed, Episode 1: The Bitter Lesson

Welcome to the first episode of Forward Deployed, a podcast exploring the intersection of AI, software development, and the enterprise.

Nov 3, 2025 • Noah Brier and Lance Martin

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46:33