Why traditional CI/CD fails for LLMs (and the release gates we built to fix it)
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Summary
Traditional CI/CD's binary gates fail for LLMs because they miss gradual drift, distribution shifts, and context poisoning. The author's release gating approach—using baseline evals, drift detection, shadow validation, and cost/latency guardrails—compares candidate behavior against historical and production baselines, shifting from 'fail fast on exceptions' to 'fail carefully on drift.'