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…say in my standard model of what a code agent should look like, uh, Devon has been very influential, obviously. Yeah. Yeah. Because you could just add the docs of something. Mm-Hmm. . And like, you know, now I have, now when I'm installing a new library, I can just add docs. Yeah, yeah. Cursor also does this. Right. And then obviously having a code interpreter does help. I guess you have that in the form of running tests. I mean, uh, the Genie has both of those tools available to it as well. So, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, we have a tool where you can, like, put in URLs and it will just read the URLs. And you can also use this Perplexities API under the hood as well to be able to actually ask questions if it wants to. Okay. So, no, we use both of those tools as well. Like, those tools are Super important and super key. I think obviously the most important tools to these agents are like being able to retrieve code from a code base, being able to read Stack Overflow articles and what have you and just be able to essentially be able to Google like we do is definitely super useful. Yeah, I thought maybe we could just kind of dive into each of those actions. Code retrieval, one of the core indexer that Yes. You've worked on, uh, even as, as built, what makes it hard, what approach you thought would work, didn't work,…

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