You should generally be setting attributes in the init method of your class, unless you want it to act like a class attribute - shared by all instances. The exception is some special types of classes such as dataclasses or pydantic objects, which do it automatically but require a post init method if you want to do anything more than set values passed to the constructor.

Tbh, if they were writing something for prod they should have factored out the uuid generation and passed values into a pydantic dataclass w/ validators for all the fields. Just sayin.