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    "text": "we had code owners in our code base and they were kind of right most of the time, like 80% of the time. But for these 20% of the time, they cost a lot of bottlenecks for us internally. … So what we started doing was building this agentic code owner thing. And what it essentially does is look in at PRs and check in like, first of all, what's the risk of this? What's the risk level? … And if it is a low risk, it can just approve the PR …",
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    "speaker": "Eric Zakariasson",
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      "title": "Building your own software factory",
      "type": "talk",
      "date": "2026-04-28",
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      "locator": "27:55",
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