FDE: What It's Really Like, From Someone Who's Done It — China vs. Global
Drawing from a Palantir veteran’s 8-year retrospective, OpenAI FDE leads, a Shenzhen entrepreneur, and a power-industry deployment engineer, this article answers five questions from a practitioner’s perspective: what FDEs do daily, how China differs from overseas, who’s cut out for it and who isn’t, how to transition in, and why it’s the closest role to entrepreneurship.