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      "text": "And every morning, we walk into the office to a small incremental PR that's low risk. And when we first did this, it was actually really frustrating, and we turned the loop off … because we had to constantly update the skill, we had to constantly check out the branch, change the skill, change the code, commit and push, and our loop was actually really high friction, right?",
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      "text": "So the next thing we're going to do is add flow control. Because the other problem that we had when we did this was that if we were at a customer site for a week or if we were traveling or spent six days working on slides instead of writing code, the PRs from all of our loops would just stack up. They'd duplicate work. They'd conflict. And we wouldn't get around to doing it. And the loop's work is important, but it's not that important. And so now we just had all this junk we had to deal with…",
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      "text": "So today I want to talk about what I think works in the real world and what we've started doing at HumanLayer, which, to be clear, is still building loops, right? I think loops are super powerful, but we can design loops and still read the code. In fact, we can design loops that make it easier to read the code because the loops are making the code better.",
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      "text": "To illustrate that, I'm going to walk through a control loop that we use internally at HumanLayer. For our loop, we are incrementally migrating our RPC API to Effect. We adopted it for some of our race prone code. We like it, so we're adopting it across the rest of our code base.",
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