THE SHORT ANSWER
The leaving. Milos Mandic, who edits FDE Hub, joined Sycamore as a forward deployed engineer and wrote on November 10, 2026 that much of his day goes to directing agents, that the pace astonished him, and that 'speed like this changes which part of the job is scarce,' which he is still working out. His own State of FDE 2026 survey, 24 responses, already answered as he reported it: seven said the systems they build stay with them after handover, and twelve spend more than a tenth of their week keeping delivered systems running. When the build is fast, what stays scarce is the two pages agents do not write: the day-60 page (promise, signal with the customer's own eval rows and the go-live pass rate as the floor, watch list, keys, the named person at the customer who can change a prompt without calling you, plus a recall rule) and the handback packet (delta, rows, reversals, count), with product's written decision owed in two weeks. The number to track is blank keys lines divided by systems shipped.
