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    "text": "don't promise an engineer the world when you give them a platform, give them a valuable use case because you have to go to where the pain lives. If I can prove to an engineer that the core value proposition of taking certain painful toil tasks away from you is beneficial, they will naturally understand that AI is not here necessarily to take away all of the work, just the parts of the work that are tedious, they require a … and tedium to go execute.",
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