I have just done a performance audit on some endpoints of a very fast moving team. Man, it is disheartening. A simple GET request to fetch one record has loops in the controller with nested database and external api calls.

And this is in a well architected and documented repo, where directness is prioritized over magic, with little to no useless abstractions, on a typed codebase, with development guidelines that address these sorts of specific issues.

Ironically, if you ask it to figure out why this endpoint is slow, it will answer correctly.