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    "text": "So the next thing we're going to do is add flow control. Because the other problem that we had when we did this was that if we were at a customer site for a week or if we were traveling or spent six days working on slides instead of writing code, the PRs from all of our loops would just stack up. They'd duplicate work. They'd conflict. And we wouldn't get around to doing it. And the loop's work is important, but it's not that important. And so now we just had all this junk we had to deal with…",
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