Issue: uvicorn reload=True hardcoded in production - causes 100% CPU on parent process

[DeckerSU]

The parent uvicorn process (python main.py) consumes ~100% CPU in production due to reload=True being hardcoded in main.py. This activates StatReload — a polling-based file watcher that runs rglob + pathlib.resolve + os.stat on
every .py file in the working tree every ~0.5 seconds.

Root cause confirmed via py-spy

All flamegraph samples point to a single hot path:

  BaseReload.run                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
    → should_restart          (statreload.py:32)                                                                                                                                                                                     
      → iter_py_files         (statreload.py:52–53)                                                                                                                                                                                  
        → pathlib.Path.rglob                                                                                                                                                                                                         
          → pathlib.Path.resolve / _joinrealpath / _select_from / __hash__                                                                                                                                                           

watchfiles is not installed in the container, so uvicorn falls back to StatReload (CPU polling) instead of the inotify-based WatchFilesReload. The production container has 1,657 .py files across 478 directories being stat'd in
a tight loop — 17× more than the local dev tree due to site-packages being within scan scope.

Fix

api/main.py, line 212 — use the existing DEVMODE env var (already defined in const.py):

  -    uvicorn.run("main:app", host=API_HOST, port=API_PORT, reload=True)                                                                                                                                                            
  +    uvicorn.run("main:app", host=API_HOST, port=API_PORT, reload=DEVMODE)                                                                                                                                                         

DEVMODE is set to True only when DEVMODE=True is in the environment (see const.py:36), so it defaults to False in production with no .env changes needed.

run_api.sh also has --reload hardcoded — same fix:

  -poetry run uvicorn main:app --host ${API_HOST} --port ${API_PORT} --reload                                                                                                                                                        
  +poetry run uvicorn main:app --host ${API_HOST} --port ${API_PORT}