https://appliedaifde.com/ Forward-deployed AI engineering Sun, 01 Nov 2026 08:25:01 +0000 https://appliedaifde.com/blog/the-critical-path-is-an-access-request.html https://appliedaifde.com/blog/the-critical-path-is-an-access-request.html Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Most enterprise AI projects are not blocked on models or engineers. They are blocked on a permission nobody has been asked for yet. https://appliedaifde.com/blog/the-baseline-is-the-product.html https://appliedaifde.com/blog/the-baseline-is-the-product.html Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 If you cannot write the query that measures the problem, you are not ready to build the thing that solves it. https://appliedaifde.com/blog/your-ai-made-your-metrics-worse.html https://appliedaifde.com/blog/your-ai-made-your-metrics-worse.html Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 When an agent takes the easy work, the average time on everything left behind goes up. Teams read that as failure and switch the thing off.