When Someone Says It Is Just a Model Swap
Respond to a common model-deployment objection using technical-debt reasoning.
A stakeholder wants to skip release review because the model replacement keeps the same endpoint schema. It is just a model swap. The API contract is unchanged, so this should not need the full deployment gate. The stable API is good news, but the decision behavior can still change. Before we promote it, let's check feature dependencies, score distribution, downstream thresholds, and rollback against the current model. Keep the review lightweight but behavior-focused: compare distributions, validate consumers, and confirm rollback. It accepts the true part of the objection while naming the ML-specific entanglement that creates hidden technical debt. Downstream thresholds…
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