If you've been in the tech industry for a while, you've read more than your fair share of "Junior engineer dropped our production database" posts.

Recently spotted in the wild is a new flavor of this HackerNews favorite: ChatGPT did it.

So what happened?

⇢ Migrated their stack from NextJS to Python/FastAPI with the help of ChatGPT

⇢ Started hearing that users couldn't subscribe anymore

⇢ Finally discovered that the issue was a hardcoded UIDs leading to collisions

All because they trusted the code that ChatGPT spit out.