GenAI Advanced — 015: chart token inflation on `RAG design trade spaces` — memo `425605 [15]`

Lesson 015: RAG design trade spaces

Focus

Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token RAG design trade spaces:15 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: RAG design trade spaces · drill v5 · spin 872036.
• 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

Eval YAML snippet

case_id: GX-2596
input_stub: summarise incident_ticket_pool_7
must_include_patterns:
  - "\[chunk_"
forbid_patterns:
  - "SLA 15m" # unless citations exist
judge_profile: tempered_1

Practice

Practice Attach rollback steps if evaluator variance spikes. — 15 Bump literals mindset by 12.