What is cost of change curve software development?

Example: You write a 400-word rough draft of your analysis and share it with your team on Monday instead of polishing it solo until Friday. By Tuesday you have three corrections, one critical blind spot identified, and a revised version that is sharper than anything a week of solo editing would have produced — in one-fifth the time.

This concept is part of Output Systems in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for output systems.