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    "text": "So we did this example with Mercedes. So when we started partnering with them, they asked us, how can you make our F1 team better? And I being sort of, you know, performance maniac, I said, well, we can make your website much faster because when people go to … buy your merch or want to get the latest results from the race or whatever, I want to make you faster, I want to make you agentic. And so that process would have taken quite a bit of time. But the first iteration of the migration of their old stack to the new one actually took five minutes. We used an agent to rewrite the code from the old platform to the new one. Five minutes. … I was like, this used to take months.",
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