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The startup that replaced us raised $4M and used Devin to rebuild our product in 6 weeks. I know because our lead engineer joined them. Our product had taken us 3 years. The VC who passed on us in our last round told me, very kindly, that the pace of AI-assisted development had changed his return math. Our four years of institutional knowledge about the problem space was worth less than their six weeks of shipping speed. The market agreed