What’s going wrong with this Kotlin code?

Here’s a Kotlin focused developer challenge: A system is supposed to catch duplicate requests by comparing IDs. Two IDs are clearly the same. The logs confirm it. The values match.
However, the duplicate check fails, and the same request goes through twice. Watch the clip and share what you think is going on in the comments.

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