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The Cloud Hides Your AI's Real Failures
Four properties of every model are always present and almost never visible: it extrapolates past its data, it discards most of your input, it is memory-bound on a shared bus, and its confidence off-distribution is undefined. A cloud environment hides all four, because a retry, a redeploy, a bigger box, and a human on a dashboard tomorrow each absorb one. Take the second chance away and they stop hiding at once.