Cracked, maxxed, and forward deployed: a field guide to AI’s boys’ club.My 4-year-old’s Halloween cat and the general vibe of this articleIn 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. Delivered by people whose most dangerous mission to date was a team offsite with a dinner spend limit that was going to make...