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Retiring an AI Model Without Breaking What Depends On It

calendar_today September 4, 2026 person Vytas domain skybiometry

Most lifecycle phases are entered deliberately. Retirement is usually entered because somebody else set a date and the first sign of it is a downstream service returning errors on a morning nobody had marked. The distinction governing everything after is between retirement and retraining, and the wrong choice is expensive both ways.

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