Live inference used to be risky. Every prediction felt like it might trigger an error if some upstream feature was missing. So I turned the entire pipeline into a strict contract: features are versioned, model expects a schema, and inference runs are checked against both before even hitting predict(). It’s now dull, predictable, and fast. Which is exactly what I want when money’s on the line. [[Inference]] [[ML]] [[Features]] [[Serendipity]]