Lesson 018: RAG design trade spaces
Focus
Assume an auditor reruns everything you claim; narrate checkpoints aloud. Token RAG design trade spaces:18 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: RAG design trade spaces · drill v8 · spin
370136. - 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-18 checkpoint
- Intent accuracy Δ `0.76`
- Escalation Δ `0.03`
- Spend guardrail `$852/day`
Risk note: Regulator acknowledgement pending
Decision due: ML-Ops
Practice
Practice List five adversarial prompts unique to your org’s nouns. — 18 Bump literals mindset by 22.