Month: December 2025
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Pilot Purgatory in Machine Learning: Why Most Models Excel in Prototyping but Fail to Deploy in Production
The POC-to-Production Gap: A Persistent Challenge in Applied ML As data scientists, we’ve all encountered the frustrating reality of “pilot purgatory”—where promising proof-of-concept (POC) models deliver impressive offline performance but never make it to production. Industry reports highlight the scale of this issue: estimates suggest that 70-80% of ML projects fail to reach production deployment,…