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  "path": "/t/openai-is-deleting-conversation-in-codex-after-making-huge-mistakes-with-deleting-data/1380021#post_9",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-30T10:55:01.000Z",
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  "textContent": "you keep talking to me like i wasn’t trying to help you.\n\ni showed you the prompt you the prompt was vague and gave you the specific industry standard of what is required for safe prompting.\n\nspecifically this wording.\n\nreliably when prompts include **Goal, Context, Constraints, and Done when** ,\n\nDirk_Peter:\n\n> I prompted it to simply fix the “Forgot Password” function\n\nyou want to beat me up because you presented your prompt as that which only has an extremely ambiguous goal ‘Fix’ and a target ‘forget password function’.\n\ncontext, constraints and deliverables are not visible in the prompt that you’ve gotten so angry at me for pointing out the core issue in what you have presented us to see and go off of.\n\nI’m not here to entertain all the extra emotional/dramatic content you wish to insert… i’m not your buddy, i’m not here to be talked down on for showing you the most likely reason why this event happened to you and what you can do in the future.\n\nThis is what I consider a properly constructed codex prompt.\n\nYou’ll see that it’s quite a bit different than the vague prompt you want to beat me up for giving feedback on.\n\nWe are continuing Prompt Forge HoverDeck work.\n\nWork type: 8. UI feature behavior\n\nThis is an Artist Influence HoverDeck-hosted control integration pass.\n\nProblem:\nThe opened Artist Influence row currently uses an external HoverDeck Hide gate that sits detached above/outside the card. This still feels visually wrong and competes with the right-edge launcher/stub territory.\n\nBetter direction:\nUse the existing CompactArtistInfluenceCard host seam. Add/wire a HoverDeck-only Hide affordance inside the card’s own right-side control lane when the card is hosted by HoverDeck.\n\nTarget files:\n\n  * PromptForge.App/Views/CompactWorkstation/HoverDeckExperimentalCompressedBody.xaml\n  * PromptForge.App/Views/LaneReplacements/Shared/CompactArtistInfluenceCard.xaml\n  * PromptForge.App/Views/LaneReplacements/Shared/CompactArtistInfluenceCard.xaml.cs\n  * code-behind only if needed for the existing CollapseRequested / UseHostCollapseRouting seam\n\n\n\nTask:\n\n  1. Remove or hide the detached external Artist Influence Hide gate from the opened-row host layout.\n  2. Use the existing CompactArtistInfluenceCard host-collapse seam instead.\n  3. Add/show a HoverDeck-only Hide control inside CompactArtistInfluenceCard when hosted by HoverDeck.\n  4. Route that Hide control through the existing host collapse pathway:\n     * UseHostCollapseRouting\n     * CollapseRequested\n     * existing HoverDeck handler path\n  5. Preserve the existing artist kaomoji/table-flip controls.\n  6. Preserve the live Artist Influence bindings and behavior.\n  7. Do not change the main app Artist Influence card behavior outside HoverDeck.\n\n\n\nVisual target:\n\n  * Hide belongs inside the Artist card’s own header/control lane.\n  * No detached Hide gate above the card.\n  * No right-side collision with the Action Copy launcher stub.\n  * Artist card no longer gets shoved or visually offset.\n  * Table-flip/kaomoji controls still remain accessible.\n\n\n\nPreserve:\n\n  * Artist selectors\n  * artist strength controls\n  * material/art style selectors\n  * table-flip/kaomoji controls\n  * prompt behavior\n  * lane state\n  * bindings\n  * commands\n  * HoverDeck row open/close behavior\n  * right-edge launcher behavior\n\n\n\nDo not touch:\n\n  * MainWindowViewModel.cs\n  * prompt generation code\n  * lane logic\n  * preset/reset/config behavior\n  * companion popups\n  * unrelated HoverDeck rows\n  * shared app-wide styles\n\n\n\nDeliverable:\n\n  * files changed\n  * exact Hide control integration made\n  * whether detached host Hide gate was removed or hidden\n  * confirmation main app Artist card behavior is unchanged\n  * confirmation CompactArtistInfluenceCard host seam was reused\n  * preserved behavior confirmed\n  * build result\n  * risks/mismatches\n\n",
  "title": "OpenAI is deleting Conversation in Codex after making huge mistakes with deleting data"
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