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proper title: database modeling bug costs company 10K

but then perhaps coding the entire thing with ChatGPT saved the company more than 10K, so they came out well ahead

or maybe tons of other bugs lurk that will cost the company well over 10K over the long run

In a typical web based app, schema is the one and only thing that you should be paranoid about. Writing it by hand is important for the same reason typing your password to confirm a big transaction is important. The time and thought going into it is worth its weight in gold. I would rather write it with one finger twice over, than giving it to ChatGPT.

Nullable strings for all!

either way it sounds like they're stuck with poor testing around their code. that shows the devs probably don't understand the code which means fixing or changing things in the future will take longer.

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