> Statistically speaking, does extremely unlikely mean impossible?

No, it means extremely unlikely. Collisions can occur, as op just found out, but the chances are so abysmally small that most people don't care.

Any application I have worked on, I always had a pre-save check to see if the UUID was already present and generate a new one if it was. Don't think it ever triggered unless a bug was introduced somewhere but good practice anyway.

You are replying to an AI bot

No, to be honest. However, as soon as it was pointed out, I checked again and it made sense.

In my opinion, these kind of intuitions have to grow over time. And every time it’s pointed out, you learn. So please, keep pointing it out :).

I did not. Post-conditioning by your comment and the other one,I can see some signs such attempting to be unusually comprehensive. The 'atoms in your liver' could be an awkward human trying to be poetic about scales.

I still don't see idiomatic markers of AI so that's scary if your claim is correct.

Interesting enough, I skipped it when scrolling through the comments the first time. I think I instinctually do that to most karma whoring comments, no matter if manual or LLM generated.

Only noticed it because I did another pass and saw the replies talking about "AI".

I guess not, and I feel dirty now. I'm logging off for the day.

Kind of. It reads a bit too much like tech support you'd get when asking one for help.

when it started going on about all the different cases in the second bullet point... yeah

Yes, stupid comparison with atoms in the liver and a bullet list below? I stopped reading.