Collide AI 2025 Wrapped Part 1: Why Forward Deployed Engineers Ship When AI Pilots Fail

Collide AI 2025 Wrapped Part 1 turns into a real talk on why forward deployed engineers win where AI pilots stall, with Michael Cortez, John, and Nick Smart swapping war stories from completions, geophysics, and the startup trenches while they map out how Collide Enterprise moves past basic chat tools into search plus workflows that actually hold up in the real world.

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00:00 Setup and intros

00:45 Michael’s path and joining Collide

01:59 Nick’s background and role shift

03:08 Collide Enterprise vs community

04:16 Search, RAG, and workflow evolution

06:31 Why out of the box AI falls short