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Weve developed our own agentic AI for code management, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. The key challenge in our area is there are hundreds of tasks that might not be particularly well automated, says CTO Paul Gaskell. You hire us to evaluate some vendor you bring on board, says Sinclair Schuller, principal at EY.
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