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An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

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Chestnuts Roasting on a Data Center

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An endangered American chestnut grove faces a new threat: A massive data center.

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