Optimizing the act of bikeshedding itself — going so deep on trivial details that it becomes its own obsessive craft. Someone who is bikeshedding-maxxing isn't just distracted; they've turned the distraction into a full-time project. The PR review that becomes a style guide rewrite. The brand workshop that produces seventeen logo variations for a button nobody clicks. It's the peak of productive-feeling unproductivity: exhausted, very busy, having accomplished absolutely nothing that matters.
They've been bikeshedding maxxing for three sprints — the sidebar is perfect and the product still doesn't work.
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