Your Model Alias Is Not a Version: A Drift Canary for Free Model Access
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The claim that keeps showing up "Nothing changed on my side." I see this in every eval regression thread. The model string in the config is identical. The prompt file is untouched. So the blame lands on randomness, right? Not quite. A model name is a pointer. It is not a checksum. Here are five thi…
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Your Model Alias Is Not a Version: A Drift Canary for Free Model Access