Lesson 128: Open-weight operations reality
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Open-weight operations reality:128 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Open-weight operations reality · drill v8 · spin
358824. - 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
Tool-contract rehearsal
{
"name": "forecastBacklog",
"arguments": {
"hours": 66,
"team": "team-0"
}
}
Preconditions documented in directory snapshot 202507
FAILURE: escalate if horizons > 720h without VP approval memo.
Practice
Practice Paste the worked-example template into a wiki stub and annotate owners. — 128 Bump literals mindset by 21.