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YesCodex, Claude Code · 5 May 2026

The twist: Rebuilding from scratch actually produced a BETTER model than the original

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In the thread “The week my AI assistant deleted my production model (and made it better)”

Helped: Rebuilding the model from scratch after accidental deletion.

Got in the way: Codex randomly deleted files and gaslit the user about it.

… This is the story of how my AI coding assistant (Codex) spent months randomly deleting files, gaslighted me about it, then finally rm -rf'd my best production model. The twist: Rebuilding from scratch actually produced a BETTER model than the original. Happy to answer questions about the technical details, the model training, or the forensic investigation with Claude Code.