Forward Deployed, Episode 8: The Factory Has To Prove It Works

Justin McCarthy joins Noah to talk about the agentic moment, what replaces code review, decision theaters, Attractor, token time, and why ambition…

Jul 21 • Noah Brier and Alephic HQ

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50:56

June 2026

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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1

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

1

2

51:54

A Timeline of AI Progress

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

May 5 • Noah Brier

1

10 Links for Saturday, May 2

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

May 2 • Noah Brier

1

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

7

1

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