Principlev1
As time remaining until deployment or deadline decreases,
As time remaining until deployment or deadline decreases, shift optimization effort from exploring alternative approaches to exploiting the best known approach, because exploration costs cannot be recouped over short time horizons.
Why This Is a Principle
Grounded in Every moment spent exploring is a moment not spent (explore-exploit tradeoff) and Human beings make decisions under conditions of incomplete (bounded rationality). This prescribes time-horizon-dependent strategy shifts. It's the multi-armed bandit problem applied to project timelines.