GenAI Advanced — 016: design rollback levers on `RAG design trade spaces` — memo `550822 [16]`

Lesson 016: RAG design trade spaces

Focus

Treat placeholders as compulsory—swap nouns immediately after reading. Token RAG design trade spaces:16 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: RAG design trade spaces · drill v6 · spin 129843.
• 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

Agent choreography card

1. Observe transcripts bucket `BUCKET-4`
2. Budget steps `5`
3. Tool whitelist: `retrieve_docs, escalate_human, log_decision`
4. Hard stop triggers: hallucination_budget | escalation keyword `URGENT-1`

Practice

Practice Pair with multilingual SME review—even if hypothetical. — 16 Bump literals mindset by 20.