Objection: We Can Fix Labels Later
Respond to deadline pressure without sounding theoretical or obstructive.
Deadline pressure to ship a labeled dataset even though a high-severity data defect is suspected. We can fix the labels later. The model team just needs something for retraining today. If the issue were a small wording cleanup, I would agree. This failure mode is label-ID mismatch. If we train now, the model can learn swapped classes and the error may be hard to detect until evaluation fails. I need a 30-minute ID and sample export check, then we can ship the clean portion. The response separates acceptable later cleanup from a high-severity, low-detectability failure. It names the operational effect…
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