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Defending the Pipeline: Build Decisions for External Model Integration
The demo looked impressive, but the quiet cost is the engineering debt of integrating unvetted external APIs into your core pipeline.
- The demo looked impressive, but the quiet cost is the engineering debt of integrating unvetted external APIs into your core pipeline.
- You are now responsible for the latency spikes and data leakage risks that the marketing team ignored.
- You must decide whether to build a dedicated inference layer or defer integration until you can prove safe isolation.
