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Who gets to name the future?

Cracked, maxxed, and forward deployed: a field guide to AI’s boys’ club.

Nicole Alexandra Michaelis

13 min read10 hours ago

My 4-year-old’s Halloween cat and the general vibe of this article

In a single meeting recently, I heard that someone had one-shotted a prototype, that we should spin up a tiger team , and that what the customer really needed was a forward-deployed engineer .

Nobody blinked. I nodded the way I nod at the dentist when he asks me a question with both hands in my mouth: agreeably, whatever, just get over with it asap, and with no idea what I had just agreed to.

It only hit me later, standing in my kitchen taking a bio break , staring into the fridge as if it owed me an explanation. I had just sat through thirty minutes of something that sounded a lot like a military briefing. About…software.…