46How do you design a customer deployment so their team can run it without you, and you make yourself obsolete?▼mediumPalantirAnthropicOpenAI1 replies◆ premiumThe best FDE deployment is the one that doesn't need the FDE anymore. This question screens for whether you build for handoff from day one or quietly make yourself indispensable, which is the failure mode that looks like success.Open full answer →
66You're leaving a customer site after a multi-month build. How do you hand off the AI system so they don't call you every week?▼mediumPalantirOpenAIAnthropic2 replies◆ premiumThe screen is whether you build for your own replaceability or your own indispensability. Strong answers treat the handoff as a deliverable with a graduation criterion, not a final week of doc-dumping. Here is what to leave behind, how to transfer it, and the trap that sounds generous.Open full answer →