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    "text": "And … since the beginning of this year at Anthropic, we've seen an 8X increase in code output per engineer. And this is just unheard of in the industry. … And the thing that we did to get to the … 8X is we systematically improve a bottleneck at a time. … We throw [Claude] at it and [Claude] is the coding. The next bottleneck is the code review. … And so just like one step at a time, we unbottleneck every part of the process.",
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