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    "text": "I think what I hear from most companies is they say, first step is we give them an exercise and we want them to really go nuts on the … to solve this. … Now, after they pass this, you do a walkthrough and you actually say, please explain me what happened. Why is this a good idea?",
    "speaker": "Patrick Debois",
    "role": "Product DevRel Lead",
    "organization": "Tessl",
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    "work": {
      "title": "Coding Agents Don't Scale Themselves. Neither Do Your Teams. The Rise of Agent Enablement",
      "type": "talk",
      "date": "2026-07-02",
      "publisher": "AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 (YouTube)",
      "locator": "16:09",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCJtYuqwm7E"
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    "verification": {
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      "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31"
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    "context": "Debois relays what he hears from companies about interviewing engineers in the age of coding agents; it is his account of other companies' practice, not Tessl's.",
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