It's weird that the author is bothered by the concept of waste being applied to software, because when people talk about waste in software development, one of t

It's weird that the author is bothered by the concept of waste being applied to software, because when people talk about waste in software development, one of the main forms of waste is inventory: the effort put into building software that has not yet been used. Or, in the article's terms, things you've built but have yet to receive the feedback "that's shit" so that they can be iterated on.