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Offline the model scores 0.86 AUC. Served live, it's effectively random. Walk me through training/serving skew.

The most expensive bug class in production ML: two implementations of 'the same' feature that quietly disagree. The diagnostic that finds it in an afternoon, and the architecture that makes it impossible.

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The most expensive bug class in production ML: two implementations of 'the same' feature that quietly disagree. The diagnostic that finds it in an afternoon, and the architecture that makes it impossible.

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