Imagine this: You are a developer who has been tasked with solving a difficult problem that causes revenue loss by the minute. Your managers and leaders have pulled you from your current priorities and asked you to look at the codebase behind a service that is repeatedly running into one of the following severe issues: OOM-ing every day for the past week, crashing intermittently under load, leaking memory over time, or exhibiting performance degradations that only surface in production-scale environments.
You are here now and need to solve the problem, but you have no clue what the codebase does. There is some AI-generated documentation you can read, but you can’t fully rely on it. There is no SME on the existing team who has been there from the beginning to help.
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