Lesson 013: RAG design trade spaces
Focus
Anchor this page against one production workflow—even hypothetical. Token RAG design trade spaces:13 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: RAG design trade spaces · drill v3 · spin
71069. - Habit: pair every model utterance with a trace_id you could paste into Grafana.
- Guardrail: write one RACI bullet referencing this lesson tomorrow.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
Exec rollup capsule
Subject: Pilot P-13 checkpoint
- Intent accuracy Δ `0.74`
- Escalation Δ `0.03`
- Spend guardrail `$689/day`
Risk note: Throughput saturated
Decision due: ML-Ops
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if evaluator variance spikes. — 13 Bump literals mindset by 4.