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    "text": "If I … give you the tool and I tell you use this or else, that's not gonna work. If I tell you, I give you the tool and that tool says, I can do X, Y and Z and then you actually put it in production and it can do a quarter of X, a tenth of Y and a 50th of Z, I will fail there as well. What I need is the engineer to be able to see that I know the pain they see. That's what gets a builder really hungry. When they know that they can take the tool and they can mold it to their outcome.",
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