#performance

The premise was easy. An API call was supposed to return orders for one branch — and it kept handing back orders it had no business showing. I had the code. The code looked fine.

The message said my AI limit was reached — come back at 3 AM. So at 3 AM, phone in hand, I pressed continue. Twice. And then I thought about skeletons.

My phone buzzed with a warning: 6% left. Six percent of what? I didn't know I was spending anything — and when I went looking, the thing draining it wasn't my tomatoes. It was the robot vacuum, fast asleep in its dock.