A fully reproducible AI pipeline re-ran the same wrong answer 40 times
A six-person data team froze its environments and made its AI analysis pipeline fully reproducible, only to see it re-run the same wrong answer 40 times. Reproducibility proves a pipeline is deterministic, not that its output is right. As AI makes rigorous-looking analysis cheap to produce, the hard part has moved from generating work to verifying it, and no amount of stable re-runs validates an error that was wrong on the first pass.