The AI memory migration nobody warns you about: trust scores that point to an embedding model that no longer exists.
Summary
The article warns that when migrating to a new embedding model in production, previously calibrated trust scores and thresholds become invalid, yet the system may still produce plausible but subtly wrong outputs, causing silent degradation.
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