Lesson 129: Open-weight operations reality
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Open-weight operations reality:129 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Open-weight operations reality · drill v9 · spin
38777. - 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
Token CFO scratchpad
- prompt_budget_tokens: 1965
- completion_budget_tokens: 860
- cache_signature: `10061`
Hypothesis: halving completions moves P95 `3`%; record actuals.
Practice
Practice Pair with multilingual SME review—even if hypothetical. — 129 Bump literals mindset by 40.