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The evolution of a developer's "random" number generation techniques is a journey through increasingly elaborate overkill:
First, you start with uuid() like a reasonable person. Then you discover Date.now() and think "timestamps are random enough, right?" (Narrator: they weren't).
But wait! What if we combine timestamp + Math.random()? Now we're cooking with paranoia! And finally, the nuclear option: timestamp + uuid() because clearly the universe itself isn't random enough without our help.
Meanwhile, cryptographers are quietly sobbing in the corner while production systems generate "totally random" IDs that are just timestamps with extra steps.
