0. This is compaction (technical background) LLMs don’t experience time the way we do. We perceive the present not as an instant but as an extended present, a brief duration measuring about three seconds. But LLMs live in a massively extended present. When you talk to an LLM, it replays the entire session from the start each time before adding the next token (roughly, the next word). It does this over and over every time it reads and writes, meaning its extended present keeps