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    "text": "it’s probably up to about 50% of pull requests in Shopify, which again, pull requests, every time you change your production system, you write a pull request, are created now not by engineers doing engineering work in the traditional sense",
    "speaker": "Tobi Lütke",
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      "title": "The Knowledge Project (podcast by Shane Parrish of Farnam Street, independent), transcript on fs.blog",
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