Give every EF Core endpoint a query budget, then let the agent fix the N+1

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:05:00 +0000

Ask an agent for “a report of each customer’s name, order count and total spend” and it will write something that reads well, passes a correctness test and issues one database query per customer. With 20 rows in a test database nobody notices. With 20,000 customers in production, the endpoint takes seconds and the database gets hammered.

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Give every EF Core endpoint a query budget, then let the agent fix the N+1