[Necessity breeds innovation, and humans are nothing if not resourceful. Alphys, being nonhuman and working primarily from garbage all of the time, is likely even more so. She does good work, but what can you do when the materials are insufficient?]

Well, I, uh-- I tried. I mean, I could, temporarily. B-But they're a hivemind. If you upload a piece of data, they'll overwrite it once they link with another one. So nothing lasts more than, uhm, a few minutes.