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You know, usually when we talk 
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there's this expectation of just
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Like you lay the foundation, you
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reads the syntax and the machine
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It's it's entirely rigid, you 
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visible, and you can track 
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dependency. 
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deterministic. 
I mean, you put X in, you get Y 

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out every single time. 
And we like our logic to be 

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predictable because, well, that 
predictability is what actually 

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makes debugging and, you know, 
scaling systems possible in the 

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first place. 
But then you step into this 

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rapidly shifting world of AI 
coding agents, and suddenly that

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compiler feels a little more 
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Oh. 
Absolutely. 

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It's a completely different 
paradigm. 

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We're looking at an engineering 
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moving away from strict 
deterministic rule following and

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moving toward managing basically
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Which is terrifying for a lot of
engineers, honestly. 

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Right, and that unpredictability
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are fundamentally changing how 
they deploy, manage and actually

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pay for AI coding assistance in 
their day-to-day infrastructure.

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O welcome to this Dee dive. 
Today we are moving way past the

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hype of justice. 
You know, chatting with a bot. 

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Yeah, the chatbot phase is kind 
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Exactly. 
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the sheer volume of tools 
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new models, the new IDE 
extensions, all these wraers, 

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and wondering how any of this 
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professional workflow without, 
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we are going to build a clear 
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works right now. 
Because a lot of it doesn't work

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out-of-the-box, not at an 
enterprise scale. 

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No, it really doesn't. 
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across the board, the 
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dive today is looking at how we 
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conversational questions and 
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structured systems. 
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to the structured. 
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look at the roll out of Cloud 
Code's new workflows feature. 

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Oh yeah, the slash workflows. 
Right workflows. 

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This represents A profound 
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actually interact with large 
language models, because I mean,

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for the longest time interacting
with an AI for coding was 

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essentially just a prompt habit.
A prompt habit. 

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Yeah, right. 
You open a chat window, you 

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meticulously type out a specific
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for the code, you review it, and
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Treating the AI as like an 
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forgetful junior developer. 
Exactly, it has amnesia every 

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time you close the window. 
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that prompt habit is essentially
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code via the command line every 
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Oh, that's a great way to put 
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Like you're typing out all the 
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You know what you want to do, 
the machine is totally capable 

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doing it, but you are still 
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the manual execution 
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It's like writing out a recipe 
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bake a cake. 
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right? 
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with workflows is taking that 
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into a product primitive. 
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manual recipe writing to having 
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you literally just hit a button.
Hit a button and walk away. 

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And what's fascinating here is 
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tasks as primitives is 
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industry right now because of 
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honestly, cognitive load. 
Cognitive load is huge. 

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Right, because when an AI task 
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relies entirely on the 
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their specific skill at writing 
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afternoon. 
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tired. 
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architecture, the prompt is 
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prompt yields completely 
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The roll of the dice. 
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into a product, a primitive, 
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that sits right in your 
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reduce that cost talkative load.
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reinvent the prompt, they just 
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actual infrastructure. 
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engine for logic. 
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like a chat buddy, you're giving
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the best prompt, to an objective
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time, the demand for this kind 
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amplified at the enterprise 
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deployment pipelines. 
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which is exactly why Big Tech is
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physically deploy these models 
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The enterprise push, yeah, I 
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leader in enterprise coding 
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hybrid and on premise codecs 
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industry because for the last 
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prevailing narrative in AI has 
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Everything goes to the cloud. 
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massive API, let the massive 
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get your answers back. 
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drawing a really hard line in 
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Because they're scared of leaks.
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incredibly close to their 
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databases and their existing on 
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back a little. 
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part of a decade migrating all 
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cloud. 
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their on Prem servers. 
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infinite scalability, managed 
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racking Dell servers in 
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this massive comeback 
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It's like hiring a brilliant, 
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paying their exorbitant retainer
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let them leave the building with
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just too valuable. 
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Security and compliance are the 
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providers aren't going to just 
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API to open AI servers. 
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would have a heart attack. 
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physics of data, gravity, and 
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OK, break that down for U.S. 
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So a coding agent is really only
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has immediate access to if an 
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say, refactor a massive 20 year 
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application. 
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entire code base, the historical
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documentation, and all the weird
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context window over a public 
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just unbearable. 
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Not to mention the token limits.
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limits in 5 minutes. 
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repository data and internal 
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public Internet to a cloud model
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having a localized Codex 
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Dell hardware inside the 
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agent sits right next to the 
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So the data gravity issue is 
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instantly. 
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database schema directly without
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tunnel to the outside world. 
It is fast, it satisfies the 

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compliance officers and it 
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problem. 
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house, you rack the servers, you
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at your proprietary monolithic 
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You solve the privacy and the 
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But this introduces a completely
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because once you unleash this 
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inside your systems, how do your
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corporate systems actually 
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worker? 
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friction sparking the brightest 
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Traditional CI. 
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pipelines were simply not built 
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They're built for humans. 
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They were built for humans 
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every CI tool is this. 
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change, they commit it. 
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commit, runs a battery of 
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pass, the code moves forward. 
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assumes the input is static and 
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No, not at all. 
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same task with the exact same 
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binary pass or fail conditions 
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Oh it breaks it entirely. 
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when the quote UN quote 
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rewrite a helper function in a 
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because of a slight variation in
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bugs, they suddenly find 
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agent aware validation. 
They need specialized review 

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processes that don't just check 
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basic unit test, but actually 
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with the broader architectural 
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automated cost controls embedded
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loop. 
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critical. 
Wait, let's look at the 

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mechanics of that loop. 
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agent is committing code and the
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agent do? 
Well, it tries to fix it. 

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Exactly. 
It reads the standard error 

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output from the field CI run, 
pulls that error into its 

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context window, generates a new 
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Over and over. 
It's hitting the models API 

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every single time. 
That's not just a broken build, 

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that is a massive compute bill. 
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boundaries inevitably leads to 
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world. 
If we connect this to the bigger

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picture, think about that 
autonomous agent trying to fix a

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deeply nested dependency issue. 
Oh boy. 

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In a fully autonomous unchecked 
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that single bug 50 times in an 
hour. 

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Wait, really? 
50 times. 

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Easily. 
And every single API call, every

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token of context it reads to 
understand the error log and 

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every token it generates to 
write the fix costs compute, 

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right? 
If you are using a cloud 

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provider, you were just burning 
cash. 

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about, you are saturating your 
local GP US and bottlenecking 

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the rest of the engineering 
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But wait, if the whole point of 
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autonomous, why are we suddenly 
needing all these manual budget 

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caps and stopping conditions? 
I mean, are we basically giving 

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the corporate credit card to an 
overly enthusiastic intern 

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without a spending limit? 
That is exactly what we're 

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doing. 
If we don't put boundaries in 

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actually systems engineering. 
You have to build boundaries 

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They have no concept of money. 

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error could consume thousands of
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alert. 
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the pipeline to say you get 
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of compute, and if you haven't 
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process and escalate to a human.
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catch infinite loop. 
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models or on Prem hardware. 
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workflow configurations instead 
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engineering teams right now, 
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fatigue. 
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real. 
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about minimizing with product 
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disappeared for everyone. 
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from writing the syntax to 
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published data highlighting a 
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fatigue within the developer 
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feature ticket. 
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literal buffet of options. 
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Overwhelming buffet. 
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Do they use Claude code? 
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workflow? 
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fatigue is paralysis. 
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spends 3 weeks evaluating which 
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But to cut through that fatigue,
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teams are forcing structure onto
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there were two fantastic examles
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completely overhauled their 
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into strict clawed code 
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That was a brilliant 
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It really was. 
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about what bugs might need 
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programmatic process. 
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designed an agent intake 
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legacy team to help them on 
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Which is so necessary for legacy
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repository, they're building a 
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Those case studies highlight the
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decision fatigue. 
The best teams aren't endlessly 

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debating models, they are taking
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them into strictly checked 
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infrastructure that teams are 
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It's a real pro tip for anyone 
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OK, so we're building a 
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deterministic model. 
How are these teams actually 

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constructing this mechanically? 
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the framework? 
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scope. 
This isn't just a verbal 

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instruction you give to the AI, 
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embedded in the workflow 
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What exactly is this agent 
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does it have permission to 
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queries? 
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the absolute boundaries of its 
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Second, you set the allowed 
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I assume this is where you 
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like accidentally rewrite the 
authentication module when it's 

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just supposed to be fixing a 
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Exactly. 
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the IDE wrapper or the local 
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directories to the LLMS context 
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It literally cannot see the rest
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I'll get smart. 
It's blind to everything else. 

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Right then third you establish a
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if it's non deterministic output
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In the workflow configuration 
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to run, like NPM test or π test.
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the standard output, the pass or
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automatically piped directly 
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prompt, rather than a human 
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paste it. 
That is the crucial mechanism, 

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yes. 
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loop entirely 4th, and this 
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discussion about the API burn. 
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Right, this is where you set the
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specific workflow, and if it 
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say $5, it just kills the 
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Exactly. 
You literally cut off its API 

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key access for that run. 
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clear stopping condition. 
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exact same error code, stop 
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pull request for a human to 
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Yes, exactly. 
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condition like if the test 
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returns 0 warnings, stop 
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the code and submit the pull 
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That makes sense. 
It prevents the model from over 

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otimizing or hallucinating extra
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actually done O it's SCOE 
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budget cap and stopping 
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Mechanically enforcing these 5 
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dedicated workflow script is how
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unpredictable API call into a 
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product primitive. 
So what does this all mean for 

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you? 
Listening right now? 

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Scaring down that dizzying list 
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clawed local models, or on Prem 
codecs, How do you actually 

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evaluate your text stack using 
this framework without drowning 

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in decision fatigue? 
This brings us to the core 

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reality check of this entire 
deep dive. 

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This raises an important 
question, right When evaluating 

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AI tools, the natural human 
instinct is always to reach for 

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the most powerful, most capable,
most intelligent model available

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on the market. 
Because we want the best. 

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We assume that the smartest AI 
with the highest benchmarks will

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naturally yield the best results
for every single task. 

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But the reality of enterprise 
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different. 
The winning agent setup is not 

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simply plugging the smartest, 
most expensive model into every 

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single step of your development 
process. 

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Because that is exactly how you 
hit those budget caps and burn 

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through your quarterly compute 
allowance in a week. 

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answer, what is the actual 
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The most sophisticated 
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on a completely different 
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They are focusing on creating 
the most repeatable workflow 

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with the cheapest acceptable 
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The cheapest acceptable 
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I love that O you're effectively
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code generation. 
How does that routing actually 

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work in practice? 
Well, it works exactly like a 

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tiered Technical Support system,
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OK, walk me through it. 
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tasks within your defined 
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generating boilerplate, or just 
formatting documentation, your 

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system defaults to a small, 
incredibly cheap, incredibly 

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fast local model. 
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on the developer. 
'S laptop exactly. 

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It costs almost nothing in 
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fails to define test command, 
the script automatically catches

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the error and escalates the 
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model. 
And only if that mid tier model 

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fails the test command, or if 
the initial scope requires, you 

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know, complex architectural 
reasoning across multiple files,

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does this system finally 
escalate to the heavy expensive 

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top tier frontier model. 
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efficiency and predictability. 
You are reserving the massive 

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cognitive power of the most 
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problems that actually require 
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dollar to have a front tier 
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Which perfectly brings us full 
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product primitive. 
You aren't relying on a genius 

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but unpredictable black box to 
do your everyday chores. 

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You are engineering a reliable, 
highly structured machine. 

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You are architecting the 
workflow, managing the local 

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versus cloud resources, and 
actively controlling that 

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escalation path. 
You are building a system of 

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intelligence. 
The raw intelligence of the 

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models themselves is honestly 
becoming a commodity. 

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The infrastructure you build to 
harness and constrain that 

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intelligence is where the actual
engineering value lies today. 

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This has been a massive shift to
unpack. 

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I mean, we started by looking at
how the industry is moving away 

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from those messy individual 
prompt habits, graduating to 

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programmatic repeatable 
workflows. 

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We explored the enterprise push,
understanding the physics and 

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data gravity that are forcing 
companies to partner with 

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hardware giants to pull Codex 
environments in house, securing 

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their proprietary data away from
public AP. 

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Is right a huge reversal of the 
cloud trend, Yeah. 

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We navigated the absolute 
friction of pushing non 

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deterministic AI agents through 
rigid traditional CI pipelines 

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and how critical it is to 
engineer automated stopping 

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conditions to control that 
massive compute burn. 

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And finally, we broke down how 
to beat developer decision 

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fatigue by enforcing strict 
scopes, file limits and triage 

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based escalation paths. 
The overarching theme here is 

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that the infrastructure 
surrounding the AI has become 

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just as critical, if not more 
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Exactly. 
For you listening right now, the

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biggest take away to implement 
in your own repositories this 

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week is this. 
Mastering this new landscape 

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isn't about having the smartest 
AI on your payroll. 

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It is about building the most 
robust, predictable and cost 

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effective system around whatever
AI you happen to use. 

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And if we look at the trajectory
of this infrastructure, it 

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leaves us with a rather profound
final thought to consider, OK. 

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Let's hear it. 
If the ultimate goal of AI 

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coding integration is creating 
these highly restricted 

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workflows, you know, with strict
budget caps, limited file 

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access, deterministic stopping 
conditions, and automated triage

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that defaults to the cheapest 
acceptable model, does the 

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future of software development 
look less like brainstorming 

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creatively with a super smart 
pair programmer and more like 

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acting as a factory floor 
manager overseeing an assembly 

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line of highly specialized, 
heavily restricted digital 

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workers? 
From the Wild West of the 

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unpredictable compiler, right 
back to the rigid structure of 

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an industrial assembly line, the
illusion of the creative AI 

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artner versus the mechanical 
reality, the digital factory 

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floor. 
That is a massive aradigm shift 

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to Mull over while you're 
writing those workflow 

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configurations this week. 
Thank you so much for joining us

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on this Dee dive. 
We'll catch you next time.