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How do you migrate to a new embedding model on a live 50M-vector index without downtime or quality regressions?

A better embedding model is useless if old and new vectors share an index, because their spaces are incompatible. The signal is the dual-index re-embed-then-cutover plan, the cost math, and how to prove the new model is actually better before you flip.

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A better embedding model is useless if old and new vectors share an index, because their spaces are incompatible. The signal is the dual-index re-embed-then-cutover plan, the cost math, and how to prove the new model is actually better before you flip.

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Applied AI Engineering·How language models work, enough to build onFree13mEmbeddings: why a computer can suddenly tell that two sentences mean the same thingEmbeddings are the reason search stopped depending on matching words. This lesson builds the intuition from a problem you already have, shows what the geometry does and does not know, and sets up why retrieval works at all.
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