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    "text": "So today I want to talk about what I think works in the real world and what we've started doing at HumanLayer, which, to be clear, is still building loops, right? I think loops are super powerful, but we can design loops and still read the code. In fact, we can design loops that make it easier to read the code because the loops are making the code better.",
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