
FDE Talks
The FDE as the People Harness - With Michael Levan
<p>I sat down with Michael Levan, AI Architect and FDE at Solo, to unpack the role from discovery through production.</p><p>We talk about why modern FDEs need to be technical generalists, how to uncover the real problem behind a customer’s feature request, when an FDE should influence product rather than build the feature themselves, and why AI security, sandboxing and observability are becoming major enterprise concerns.</p><p>We also get into a less technical, but arguably more important part of the job: earning enough trust that customers want your opinion before they make the architecture de...



