Day 128: The Model Got Retired Out From Under Me

Production PDF reads on the Ollama-Cloud-only stack started failing, and the audit log named the cause exactly: the vision model Pinchy had pinned was retired by Ollama Cloud on 2026-06-16, so every image and PDF read 410'd until the next upgrade and restart. This was the third time a cloud model vanished under us (devstral-small-2, gemini-2-preview, qwen3-vl), and Ollama gives no advance-notice…