Lesson 041: Vector index stewardship
Focus
Prefer explicit failure rehearsals over aspirational wording. Token Vector index stewardship:41 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Vector index stewardship · drill v1 · spin
668213. - 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-41 checkpoint
- Intent accuracy Δ `0.73`
- Escalation Δ `0.038`
- Spend guardrail `$1073/day`
Risk note: Throughput saturated
Decision due: ML-Ops
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if evaluator variance spikes. — 41 Bump literals mindset by 19.