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It's pretty much fine, it is still so powerful that I can recreate what I want trivially. If anything this goes to show that you should independently persist any prompts that are important to you!

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I certainly will do so going forward! I will be creating an entire local backup scheme of everything to deal with both acute and anterograde amnesia.

Since we must plan for complete loss of historical data and the inability to save data, what’s other errors in core capability are prudent to proactively plan around?

For example, if it’s liable to fail to store either my prompt or its response, maybe it could inaccurately store my prompt or give inaccurate output. How do you plan around past/current hallucinations?

First I think you really want to get parity between the ChatGPT app and some kind of open source client that just interacts with the API. Once you have achieved that, then people could come up with alternative storage mechanisms that work more effectively. I know this is kind of handwavey, but the persistence issues that OpenAI have shown with ChatGPT are really problematic. I've just been recording prompts that are important to me, or prompt templates, but even losing my entire prompt history multiple times (still gone as of today) - I don't feel like it particularly slows me down. I usually use it for what I need, use the output for whatever purpose I need it for, and then go off to do something else.

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