
Why Your Code Isn't as Performant as You Think (And How to Stop Fooling Yourself)
Picture this: you’ve just crafted what feels like the Mona Lisa of algorithms. It’s elegant, it’s clean, and it passes all the tests. You deploy it with the confidence of a SpaceX engineer… only to watch your monitoring dashboards light up like a Christmas tree. What went wrong? Let’s peel back the layers of our collective self-delusion. The Confidence-Competence Chasm (Where Dreams Meet Flame Graphs) We’ve all been there - that moment when you realize your “optimized” code runs slower than a sloth on melatonin....