Production AI & The False Finish Line [D]

We've all been there. You celebrate the go-live, pat the team on the back, and move on. But who's watching this thing six months later? Sure, the system keeps running. Even when customer behavior shifts, catalogs change, and patterns evolve. Performance drifts so slowly that nobody notices until a business metric moves weeks later. A Harvard/MIT study found 91% of ML models degrade over time. That number didn't surprise me. What surprised me is how