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    "text": "It has access to some production systems with guardrails, you know? So we built, we talked about specialist dots, but specialist dots is just like, operate with additional guardrails, additional monitoring, and then, you know, on their own hardware. So we actually run some on … The fundamental difference in the way that we've built dots is like, the harness does not run on the machine, you know? And then this is like, maybe people have not realized. It's like, it can connect to as many devices as you want. So it has its own computer. You can actually connect it to your own laptop as well. Over time, you might connect it to like, 10 different devices and it can control it all, a little bit like an octopus.",
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