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    "text": "You could figure out which ones took less tool calls, … which one made less errors, which one produced the correct outcome, and deterministically know what's going on. The point is you can start building data-driven systems without ever writing a single line of code. … in order to build a programming language, it wouldn't have taken eight people. It wouldn't have taken less than two years. It would have taken hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of man hours, and then you would still have a broken system. And today, we can just spend billions of tokens and make it work, and we can make it stable.",
    "speaker": "Vaibhav Gupta",
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