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    "text": "We have a dumb but effective approach. Every 30 minutes, we clone every repository, install all of its dependencies, and do any initial setup, and then take a file system snapshot. Then when a new inspect session is created, we start the sandbox from that snapshot, and the sandbox starts up in just a couple seconds from that exact file system state. This means when you send a prompt, you're not waiting on Git or npm or really anything, it just starts the sandbox and begins processing your prompt.",
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