Waste is the rework you pay for five times before you see value. It in capacity missed, as excess spend, as the maintenance nobody scheduled, and work you never get to.
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Missed opportunities
The context, tokens, and cognitive load that could be spent on prioritizing your customer's needs, creating feature velocity, and creating meaningful value.
02
Repeat work
The same tasks created by agents, then tested by agents, again and again, in every repo. Most of those tokens can be automated away.
03
Preventative maintenance
Get clean, stay clean. Cheap to hold once you are there, expensive every month you are not.
Now the useful question: where is it in your code?