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    "text": "…me five minutes before the live demo, which was actually … stressful because it was like, … production is down. And it's like, oh, well, you know, it's like, … want me to try and fix it? And I'm like, I don't think you're there yet, you know, a little dot, but, you know, thank you for trying. And then, you know, then, you know, I got in touch with like the engineering teams and we started to look, you know, what was going on. And, you know, they, it's like fixed by now. But having this thing that just understands like, okay, there's a pretty important thing happening. It's called Dev Day. There's like this production system, there's a live demo. It's probably using this production system. So these two things are connected and this is happening in five minutes. So I should ping him because like, he probably wants to know about it. I think that's quite remarkable.",
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