Engineering teams lose 20-35% of developer time to context acquisition. This invisible tax is baked into every estimate and accepted as normal. It shouldn't be.
Each context switch costs a developer 23 minutes to regain focus. In a typical day, that adds up to 2-3 hours of lost deep work.
Every tool helps you write code faster. Nothing helps you understand what to write. Pre-code intelligence is the missing category.
Story points, lines of code, and PR count don't measure what matters. Here's what to track instead.
Regressions, slow onboarding, missed estimates, and knowledge loss. Quantifying what poor codebase understanding actually costs.