So, yesterday I was working on a project to generate images of famous characters from history, movies, literature and many other sources. It was a nice app that would generate a template of a single character in four different views: Front, Left, Right and Back. And it took me a long time to get it work properly, but after I was satisfied, I checked if it had a proper version log and everything was saved correctly.
No problems found…
Today when I went back to my project, I see the chat log from yesterday and the application being reset to the first version. The name has also changed and the version log only has two snapshots. The one that was made when opening the app and one from 19 hours ago, which was when I had started the project.
So, a huge amount of my time just got wasted because AI Studio failed to keep my project safe! And I’ve done a huge amount of work on this app, including providing all kinds of data for all the characters it needed to make. I had a list of over a thousand persons with their name, description and a prompt to generate them.
And the AI is unable to restore it all, of course…
I knew I should have made a Web API on my own server to store all these characters, but it seemed that React could just divide them into small groups so they would be easier to manage from the code. (And doesn’t require me to spend time building this web API.) But it just seems I have to start all over again now…
Now, I only lost one day of work and generated data, but this is a critical bug in AI Studio. For some reason, it cannot save projects correctly. I know it uses my Google Drive to store parts of the projects, but let me make a suggestion:
Store all the code in Google Drive!
After all, as AI Studio can access it, it could just as easily save it there too. This means that we get an “AI Studio” folder in Google Drive where our project files are stored. And I do mean completely stored. This seems a better option than using the “Magic Space” that AI Studio uses at this moment. It also allows me to make backups of Drive to other systems or synchronize the folder to my local system.
Seriously, more people have complained about lost projects. This is critical, as it keeps people from using it.
