Why most ML projects never reach production
Industry data: 60–80% of ML projects fail to reach production. The reasons aren't model accuracy — they're data pipelines, monitoring, evals, and ownership. We frame the boring 70% no one wants to teach.
- · The 'POC purgatory' anti-pattern and how to escape it
- · Why a SageMaker notebook is not a production system
- · Eval suites in CI: the discipline that separates research from product
- · Drift detection: feature drift vs concept drift vs label drift
- · Who owns a deployed model — the org chart trap