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Most model regressions I've debugged trace back to upstream schema drift, not the model itself—the pipeline feeding it changed shape quietly, and nobody noticed until the outputs did. Treat your data contracts with the same rigor as your APIs, because they break just as often and are usually caught much later.

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Damien K. Edwards — AI & Data Engineer