AI Engineer · July 28, 2026

AI tools for Forward Deployed Engineering — Vasuman Moza, Varick Agents

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Why it matters

A customer spent five million dollars and five years migrating to SAP, and has zero appetite to rip anything out again. That constraint is the whole design at Varick Agents: instead of asking an enterprise to migrate, you drop forward deployed agents on top of the systems they already run.

My takeaway: AI tools for Forward Deployed Engineering — Vasuman Moza, Varick Agents is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.

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