Ask HN: Do you use the chat "Share" link as a save/load snapshot?
how i use it
quick start: 1) tune until behavior is right → 2) press Share, copy link → 3) paste next time to boot the same state
works for: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok
not true snapshots (in my tests): Mistral, Kimi (their “share” seems to export text, not state)
why it helps
reproducibility for A/B prompts and eval
faster incident response for RAG/OCR/agent pipelines (no re-tuning)
stable voice for long-form writing or T2I workflows
safe red-team vs blue-team comparisons in parallel tabs
open questions for HN
have you observed state fidelity differences across providers? which ones actually restore the same behavior?
any known privacy or retention pitfalls with shared links? do teams treat them as secrets?
tips to reduce drift after reload? warmup lines, pinned rules, or version tagging?
operational patterns you like? e.g., “master seed link → clone per task”, “creator/editor twin links”, audit tables, rotation cadence.
where does this fail? model/version swaps, truncation, context size, org policies, url lifespan?
sample use cases (compact)
RAG triage: one link per fault family (indexing, vector drift, routing)
prompt-injection lab: attacker link vs defender link, run side-by-side
writer flow: one “voice+outline” link, one “line-edit” link
SRE postmortem: template link with timeline + five-whys
i’m curious if others already do this, or if there are better patterns. what have you seen work or break?
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