Principlev1PR-1454
Eliminate process steps that add no value rather…
Eliminate process steps that add no value rather than automating them, because faster waste is still waste.
Why This Is a Principle
This derives from Every system is perfectly designed to get the results… (systems are designed for their results) and implicitly from Abstraction Necessarily Discards Information (abstraction discards information—automation preserves the structure). Hammer's 'don't automate, obliterate' principle follows directly: if a step adds no value, removing it is better than speeding it up.