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    "text": "What the working model that we've used for all of our internal agent development is basically a tripod. It's a GTM engineer, a data scientist, and then the best person, the best subject matter expert in that function. And they sit down shoulder to shoulder and document the best practice for that particular function and then encode that in workflows that ultimately form an agent. We then keep a human in the loop so that human will basically QA the agent. The agent won't be allowed to autonomously execute its action. And then over time as the subject matter expert has less feedback for the agent, we finally pull that person.",
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