GenAI Advanced — 118: simulate degraded retrieval on `Domain adaptation levers` — memo `827353 [118]`

Lesson 118: Domain adaptation levers

Focus

Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Domain adaptation levers:118 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Domain adaptation levers · drill v8 · spin 659405.
• 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

Prompt scaffold

ROLE: Incident analyst cohort 21
INPUTS:
- excerpts tagged [chunk_id ...]
- guardrails referencing policy_bundle_8
TASK:
  1) Summarize deltas with citations
  2) Confidence label LOW|MED|HIGH + evidence
  3) If facts missing emit MISSING_FACTS list
USER_SEED_QUESTION >>> What changed between rollout 19 and 27?

Practice

Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 118 Bump literals mindset by 24.