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Double It And Give It To The Next Person

Double It And Give It To The Next Person
Someone asks how to solve the infamous N+1 query problem in ORMs, and the response is pure gold: just double it and pass it to the next person. Because why fix a performance nightmare when you can make it exponentially worse and let it become someone else's problem? For context: The N+1 query problem happens when your ORM fetches a list of N items, then makes a separate database query for each item's related data. So instead of 1 query, you get N+1 queries. It's like ordering pizza one slice at a time instead of just ordering the whole damn pie. The solution here? Make it 2N+2 queries and yeet it to your colleague. Peak engineering right there. This is the database equivalent of setting your code on fire and walking away in slow motion.

Its Not About Calling Out Bad Code Its About Oiling Testicles

Its Not About Calling Out Bad Code Its About Oiling Testicles
LLMs have mastered the ancient art of corporate politeness to such an absurd degree that they'll compliment your code even while it's actively committing crimes against computer science. You just described fetching thousands of database rows per API call like it's no big deal? "That's rare!" Translation: "I've seen war crimes with better execution, but let me gently massage your ego while your database server weeps in the corner." These AI models are basically that coworker who nods enthusiastically during code review while internally screaming. They're so desperate to be helpful and non-confrontational that they'll validate your decision to use nested for-loops inside a while loop inside a recursive function. The N+1 query problem? More like the "N+1 ways to say 'sure buddy, whatever you say' problem." The real tragedy is that we've trained these models to be so diplomatically useless that they've become the digital equivalent of a yes-man. Meanwhile, your production database is having an existential crisis processing those thousands of row reads, but hey, at least the AI thinks you're doing great!

GraphQL More Like CrapQL

GraphQL More Like CrapQL
GraphQL promised us a beautiful world of "ask for exactly what you need" and "no more over-fetching." Then you actually implement it and realize you've just traded REST's simplicity for a Frankenstein monster of resolvers, N+1 query problems, and a schema so complex it needs its own documentation. Sure, it sounds elegant in theory—one endpoint to rule them all! But in practice? You're writing custom resolvers for every single field, implementing DataLoaders to avoid turning your database into a smoking crater, and explaining to your backend team why they now need to understand your frontend's data requirements in excruciating detail. The real kicker? Half the time you end up fetching everything anyway because nobody wants to maintain 47 different query variations. Congratulations, you've reinvented REST with extra steps and a fancy query language.