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      "text": "One of the principles that we had at Cursor and now at SpaceX is to delete the product. And what we mean by this is you kind of have to internalize and assume that the models today are the worst they'll ever be, which means that in six months you might need to completely rebuild the UI.",
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      "text": "So I talked about how the agent has this computer, this Linux box. This is running a firecracker virtual machine, and the reason this is really helpful is because it's very easy then to essentially snapshot the state of the machine and shut it down and start it back up.",
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      "text": "One trick that we do, which I think is really helpful, is while you're still within the warm cache period, you should probably do the compaction right now, because you have this long conversation … going to be much cheaper. So just go ahead, do the compaction, and now when the user comes back at 30 minutes or whatever, they're starting from this summary, and the summary now is going to be much cheaper for them to continue adding messages on.",
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      "text": "We tried to model some of that here where the harness has, of course, these core facts. It also has these dated logs of kind of your past conversation history centrally. And then also these kind of scratch pad notes … little things that you've been working on right now that are designed to be ephemeral, and they will go away, but they might be relevant just for the next 30 minutes or an hour.",
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      "text": "… there's only one tool that communicates between the client and the server. And it's just send user. And the great thing about this is that it's actually very architecturally simple where the client is just texting the server in some ways.",
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