I Built My Company's Brain in 2019 and Mistook It for a To-Do List

Where does a physical-AI company's next dollar and next engineer-hour go? Not to the loudest voice — to an optimizer that re-solves the best next move every cycle, the same MPC loop its robots use to replan. I built the engine in 2019 as Life GPS (a binary integer LP) and mistook it for a to-do list; the AI-native age just supplied the three data feeds it was starving for.