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    "text": "And we have this notion of spend tiers. So by default, you get certain … tier, and then we have many levels of tiers. Once you're close to that tier, then you can raise a request to go to the next tier. And you just need a simple manager approval. … But we don't want to restrict engineers … they should be able to spend whatever they need because ultimately we want to … maximize the gain from this.",
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