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AI model families: roadmap watching without thrash
New models ship monthly. Pin to dated snapshots, evaluate quarterly, switch only when measurable wins justify the migration cost.
Creators · Model Families · ~7 min read
The premise
If you upgrade every time a new model launches, you spend more time re-evaluating than building. If you never upgrade, you fall behind. A quarterly evaluation cadence with snapshot pins is the discipline that keeps both costs manageable.
What AI does well here
- Behave consistently when pinned to a dated snapshot
- Surface measurable differences between snapshots on the same eval set
- Migrate cleanly when prompts are written portably
What AI cannot do
- Tell you whether a new model is worth migrating to without your eval
- Preserve all prior behaviors across versions
- Promise long-term availability of any given snapshot
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