#Prototyping

Articles about Prototyping — exploring patterns, best practices, and real-world implementations in production systems.

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Pratik Dhanave · ·7 min read

From Demo to Pilot

An AI demo is the easiest impressive thing to build and the most misleading. It runs on hand-picked inputs, in a clean environment, with the failures edited out — and it convinces everyone the problem is nearly solved when the real work has barely begun. The AI forward deployed engineer's job in this phase is to use the demo to win belief, then walk the customer honestly across the chasm to a pilot that survives real data.

An AI demo is the easiest impressive thing to build and the most misleading: it runs on cherry-picked inputs, in a clean environment, with the failures edited out — and convinces everyone the problem is nearly solved when the real work has barely begun. Use the demo to win belief, then walk the customer honestly across the chasm to a pilot that survives real data.

#Forward Deployed Engineer#AI Engineering#Prototyping#LLMs
Pratik Dhanave · ·6 min read

Rapid Prototyping

An FDE's superpower is turning a vague problem into something the customer can see and touch within days — because a rough working demo teaches more than a month of meetings.

Turn a vague problem into something the customer can touch in days: build the thinnest slice that tests the riskiest assumption, run a tight demo loop, and manage the prototype's lifespan so 'it demoed' doesn't get shipped as 'it's done'.

#Forward Deployed Engineer#Prototyping#MVP#Product#Forward Deployed Engineering#Testing

All posts on this site are written by Pratik Dhanave, an Agentic AI Architect with 7+ years building production distributed systems, multi-agent AI platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. About the author → Each article includes working code, architecture diagrams, and references to the specific frameworks and standards discussed. Browse all posts or explore related topics using the tag cloud above.