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    "text": "At HumanLayer, we like to build out what we call golden patterns by hand before setting the agent loose. These are just like idiomatic hand-written examples for the agent to follow because they're just pattern replicators and otherwise you're getting what's in the docs or what the agent knows from the internet.",
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