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    "text": "But, you know, seriously, like … research, long persistent, long horizon tasks, this is something that we've worked on, you know, for more than two years. … And it's like, you know, it's just memory works very, very well in … and so we've put a lot of research in that. And, you know, all of this coming together on top of like the Codex harness and also the ability to just like run 24/7 with, you know, good productivity. That's what we launched with dots. And so it's the work of like many, many months.",
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