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# [Why Squeaky-Clean Datasets Break Production Vision Models](https://hashnode.employabledatascientist.com/why-squeaky-clean-datasets-fail-in-production?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Over-cleaning training data strips structured real-world noise, leaving vision models brittle. Build a data preservation list before running cleaning sprints.

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I'm Harpreet Sahota, Hacker-in-Residence at The Employable Data Scientist, a technical consultancy for AI and developer-tool teams, and host of the Artists of Intelligence podcast. I write about AI engineering, computer vision, agent evaluation, and physical AI, with working code and real numbers. Before that, I led developer relations at Voxel51 and Deci AI.

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