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The most user-hostile button in modern AI products is also the most necessary one. Somewhere around message forty, the agent has latched onto a wrong assumption, the tone has drifted, and every new turn is making the answer worse instead of better. The user knows the right move: clear the slate and start again. They reach for "New Chat" — and watch the half-finished plan, the four documents they drafted, and the configured prompts they spent twenty minutes shaping vanish along with the poisoned history.

So they stop using the reset button. They open a second tab, copy-paste their artifacts across by hand, and keep the broken conversation alive as a graveyard they're afraid to close. That ritual — manual copy-paste as a workaround for a button that should have done the right thing — is the clearest signal a chat product can give that its data model is wrong.