At the start, I had to choose one of four options, and I immediately picked the Brahmin from the cou

"A month?"

Dr. Chen shook his head with a wry smile, his face, worn from years of staying up late, was full of despair.

"Mr. Li, it's not that we want to be lazy, but software engineering has its own objective laws. It's like giving birth; even if you find ten women, you can't have a baby in a month. Refactoring the underlying logic is like pulling a thread that affects the whole system; if even one line of code causes a deadlock, the entire server will crash under concurrency pressure."

The core programmers around him nodded silently in agreement. In their view, although this young CEO Li was wealthy and powerful, he was clearly a novice who didn't understand technology and was issuing a blatant order for an outsider to instruct an expert.

Li Xiao did not get angry in the face of the questions raised by this group of tech geeks.

He simply recited in his mind: "Use props, object binding - Xinglan Information Technology R&D Team".

[Ding—Special item has been bound; target team's R&D efficiency doubled.]

As the system's cold, mechanical notification faded from my mind, the air in the office seemed to undergo a subtle, almost imperceptible distortion in that instant.

There was no dazzling light, no physical USB drive appearing out of thin air, and no physical manifestation of any supernatural phenomenon. Li Xiao remained standing calmly in place, his hands still in his trench coat pockets, as if he had only been in a daze for a second.

"Mr. Li?" Dr. Chen looked at the silent Li Xiao, feeling a little uneasy, thinking that this patron had been angered by his theory about having children.

"Objective laws do exist. But human potential can often break these laws in desperate situations. I won't force an outsider to instruct an expert, but the one-month timeframe will remain unchanged. You all get back to work; I'll only look at the final data and results."

After saying that, Li Xiao turned around and left Xinglan Technology's office area with Zhou Yanhuai and Zheng Hao.

With the door closed, the tense nerves in the office area finally relaxed.

"Boss, this capitalist's 'pie-in-the-sky' tactics of making empty promises and exploiting people are too blatant..." the messy-haired backend engineer muttered as he sat back down at his workstation. "Refactoring the underlying layers in a month? Does he really think we're gods?"

"Alright, stop complaining. We're paid to fix things. We'll fix whatever we can, starting with that memory overflow bug from today." Dr. Chen sighed, rubbed his throbbing temples, and put his thick black-rimmed glasses back on.

However, just as Dr. Chen turned his gaze back to the jumbled mess of C++ code on the screen, an extremely strange feeling struck him without warning.

My brain, which had felt like it was filled with lead from staying up all night, suddenly felt as if it had been swept by a cool breeze. All the fatigue, confusion, and mental blockages melted away in that instant.

He stared at the Semantic_Parser module that was causing the server to crash frequently, and a very clear thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

"etc……"

Dr. Chen sat bolt upright, his fingers unconsciously hovering over the keyboard. He realized he had instantly seen through the fatal logical loop hidden within thousands of lines of code.

"It's not that we lack computing power... it's that we added an unnecessary global lock to the feature matrix of the unstructured text during multi-threaded scheduling!" Dr. Chen suddenly turned to the backend engineer, speaking rapidly, "Xiao Zhang! Remove the mutex on line 1402 and replace it with a read-write lock (RWLock), then split the batch processing logic for feature extraction into an asynchronous coroutine!"

"Huh? But boss, if we don't add a global lock, what if there's dirty data reading during concurrency?" Xiao Zhang was taken aback.

"It won't be a scrambled read! Our deep semantic model is essentially stateless computation, so it doesn't need to guarantee strong consistency!" Dr. Chen's eyes lit up as he spoke, his hands already moving like blurs across the keyboard. "Quick! Fix it, recompile, and run a small-scale gray-scale test!"

The entire office area came back to life thanks to Dr. Chen's sudden inspiration. Five minutes later, three lines of core code were modified, and the system was repackaged.

Import 10,000 test resumes and start concurrent load testing!

Everyone held their breath, staring intently at the CPU and memory curves on the monitor screen.

"Boom!" A torrent of data flooded in.

In the past, even with only 10,000 concurrent connections, the redundant "global lock" would cause threads to queue up frantically, instantly surging CPU utilization to over 90% and then completely freezing the system. But this time, the curve only bounced slightly at the 40% mark before smoothly falling back down.

"It's working..." Xiao Zhang's voice trembled. "Boss, 10,000 concurrent requests, zero errors! Matching latency dropped from two minutes to three seconds!"

This was just a minor, localized optimization, still a far cry from achieving Li Xiao's requirement of "100,000 concurrent connections and millisecond-level response." But for the Xinglan team, who had been mired in difficulties for months, it was undoubtedly a dazzling crack torn open in the darkness of despair!

"Well done!" Dr. Chen excitedly pumped his fist, a renewed fervent fire burning in his eyes. "Brothers, we're on the right track! Our previous thinking was flawed. Following this logic, breaking down the layers, this fundamental reconstruction—it's going to work!"

Unbeknownst to them, the system tool called the Embedded AI Code Self-Generation Engine wasn't some kind of magic that blatantly altered reality. It was more like an invisible, super-mentor standing above their cognitive level.

It subtly permeated the air of this office area, gradually raising the logical ceiling of every programmer.

In the past, during technical seminars, twelve people would argue heatedly and stubbornly disagree on an architectural solution. But now, they've discovered that the team's tacit understanding has reached a chilling level.

The front-end just raised a requirement for a data interface, and the back-end code logic has already perfectly taken shape in my mind; when encountering a bug, there is no longer a need to painfully check line by line. Often, in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee, a flash of inspiration will directly pinpoint the core vulnerability at the lowest level.

The underlying logic refactoring they thought would take at least six months was resolved layer by layer in an extremely strange yet incredibly smooth rhythm. Those redundant and bloated technical debts were replaced by lines of elegant, efficient, and divine code, thanks to their daily bursts of brilliant inspiration.

They even felt that they had suddenly had a collective epiphany, as if they were blessed by the two great minds, Turing and von Neumann.