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Scenario Library

Real FDE scenarios drawn from production deployments. Each one tests the dimensions that separate deployment-ready engineers from those who need hand-holding. Sign in to start practising.

Harwood Logistics

RAG Support Agent

Mid90 min

An AI support agent returning wrong answers to employees. Diagnose two silent config bugs that are tanking retrieval quality — similarity threshold too tight, chunk size too small.

AI/LLM IntegrationProduction DebuggingTechnical Depth
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Arbor Capital

Financial Document Pipeline

Mid90 min

Earnings pipeline failed overnight before a board demo. Revenue queries return 404 and nothing is being stored. Fix two bugs and complete two stubs before the CTO presents.

Scripting & AutomationProduction DebuggingExecution
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FDE Readiness Tiers

< 50

Developing

Needs coaching on deployment fundamentals

50–69

Deployment-Ready

Handles standard integrations independently

70–84

Battle-Tested

Navigates ambiguity and escalation without hand-holding

85+

Principal FDE

Shapes how customers build, not just what they build