... spent 6 months paying for shortcuts you took in the first 6 weeks. The cost breakdown is not about the money. It is about the lost features you never got to build. The customers you never acquired. The competitors who passed you while you were debugging. The most expensive code is not the code that broke. It is the code that worked just well enough to keep around while it slowly drained your team's energy. Have you ever ... ... smart way to encode what failed so it does not fail the same way twice. Human in the middle still matters. You catch what the plan missed. You see the pattern the model cannot articulate. The watchful