What Caused Inflation?

When you're talking about early dark energy, you mean like post inflation dark energy. Not that early. I mean, lt, not pret early, late, early. That's right. Because earliest thing that we can actually measure comes from about 400 thousand years after the beginning of the universe. This is the cosmic micro way background radiation. And so that gives us actually a measurement of how much dark energy there was back then. Which lests us calculate the acceleration from that point, not all the way back to inflation. But wouldn't that confused things? Like, at what point do you think this potential inflaton feel, or whatever it is that costs te big bang, or he