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    "text": "And every morning, we walk into the office to a small incremental PR that's low risk. And when we first did this, it was actually really frustrating, and we turned the loop off … because we had to constantly update the skill, we had to constantly check out the branch, change the skill, change the code, commit and push, and our loop was actually really high friction, right?",
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