CSV Duplicate Record Removal
Write a script to ingest a CSV file and remove duplicate records efficiently. Validate your approach using progressively larger test files, leveraging AI to refine and optimize the code.
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Late March, 2026
Microsoft
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The task focuses on eliminating duplicate rows within a specified time frame, validating the approach, and exploring ways to improve efficiency. The emphasis is less on prompt design and more on leveraging AI to refine the code and test it using smaller data batches. Multiple files were provided for testing, with each file containing a progressively larger number of records than the previous one.
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