The other Tim has become difficult to retrieve.
The research assistant was also called Tim. This had initially been regarded as an administrative economy. Other Tim was investigating potato starch as a superconducting material using a single OpenAI conversation begun eighteen months earlier. The conversation had since acquired seven competing accounts of the experiment, a lunch order, and a firm belief that Tim was a railway station. Its context window was now effectively a black hole: facts entered at considerable speed and re-emerged as supporting evidence for something else. Starting a new chat was out of the question. Other Tim said they would lose the progress. The progress was last observed in February, moving away from the original question.
“It has forgotten the experiment, but it remembers how promising it was.” — Poetato