For a decade our job was to make capability flow: Get the data in, get the model serving, ship the pipeline. After Washington switched off Claude Fable 5 for half the world overnight, there's a second mandate now - make capability survivable.
➡️ Designing for the provider disappearing.
➡️ For the model silently getting worse with no error.
➡️ For the legal status of your output being genuinely unsettled.
Multi-model routing and dependency governance just moved from "nice architecture" to core competency.
The engineers who can answer "what happens to this pipeline when the model goes dark?" are going to be the ones writing the architecture decisions for everyone else.
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