How about a way to cut chats by half

[ToiGamin]

I currently have a very long thread that I don’t want to abandon because the AI in that thread finally understands my preferences and how we collaborate on projects.

When I start a new thread, even with my settings and guidelines configured, the AI behaves like it’s meeting me for the first time. It usually takes many messages before it begins responding the way the longer thread does.

Unfortunately, that same thread eventually becomes too large to use as well and that is because it takes so many messages to get it back up to speed and match the other one. On my phone it won’t load anymore, and on a browser it becomes extremely slow and sometimes even crashes.

I do use a browser extension that only loads the last ~15 messages, which helps somewhat, but it made me wonder if there could be a more permanent solution.

What if it were possible to trim older parts of a conversation thread — either deleting or archiving the earliest messages — without resetting the AI’s behavior the way editing a message currently does?

The early messages helped establish the collaboration style, but once that pattern is set, those very old messages aren’t really needed anymore.
If older portions of a thread could be removed while preserving the developed interaction style, it would keep the conversation manageable and prevent performance issues. Then when a thread becomes long again, the process could simply be repeated.

I don’t know if something like this is technically possible, but it would be incredibly helpful for long-running collaborative threads.

But thanks for asking for suggestions 🙂

Toi

[adamlui]

Sup @ToiGamin thanks for the suggestion! I think this tool would be way too niche but you can achieve it by opening your console, then paste and send this:

document.querySelectorAll('section[data-testid^="conversation-turn-"]')
    .forEach((elem, idx, array) => {
        if (idx < Math.floor(array.length / 2)) elem.remove() })

You can store it on gists.github.com for easier reference ( chats restore on refresh )