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    "text": "In the simplest of terms, I defined an … org as one where engineers leverage AI agents as their primary means of producing engineering outcomes. So that meant that our engineers needed to treat agents as core members of their engineering workflow. … using AI to help them write code here and there, but actually working with agents, decomposing problems, delegating work, reviewing and verifying what was done. And we wanted them directing the work as their default way of operating.",
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