AI changes can produce subtle quality and performance regressions that staging tests miss.
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Canary AI Releases
A canary release exposes a small percentage of traffic to a new model, prompt, retrieval configuration or serving stack before broad rollout.
5% of traffic uses a new reranker while the team compares TTFT, citation success and cost against the control.
Which metrics must remain within bounds before increasing traffic?
REMEMBERCanary the whole AI behavior change, not just application code.
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