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Where the team's scarcest hours actually go.
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The most consequential call an EM makes each quarter.
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Picking what gets nothing this quarter. Explicit starvation beats implicit neglect.
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Teams at 100% planned capacity cannot absorb a single surprise.
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Inference spend treated as a quarterly allocation by engineering.