PRODUCTION SCENARIO
An email from Anthropic announces that the model behind a company's invoice extractor is deprecated and gives a retirement date. The extractor has a good evaluation set.
What should the team do first?
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Answer: Evaluate the recommended replacement well before the retirement date, then migrate
Deprecated models still work but are no longer recommended, and requests fail after retirement. The deprecations page says to migrate before the retirement date and to test replacement models thoroughly well in advance; pinning an ID does not survive retirement.