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using GitHub CoPilot leads to the obvious consequence (archive.is)

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 33 points 5 months ago (56 children)

You also definitely shouldn't be using String non-monotonic UUIDs for primary keys in a database, like, literally ever, but what the fuck do I know, I just do databases for a living, I'm not the all-knowing GPT code wizard.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 15 points 5 months ago

i'm not doing databases for living but the idea of stringifying a perfectly cromulent unique number in order to store it in the database comes as slightly weird to me.

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