Lesson 021: Tokenization and budgeting intuition
Focus
Treat placeholders as compulsory—swap nouns immediately after reading. Token Tokenization and budgeting intuition:21 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Tokenization and budgeting intuition · drill v1 · spin
742416. - 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
Agent choreography card
1. Observe transcripts bucket `BUCKET-3`
2. Budget steps `5`
3. Tool whitelist: `retrieve_docs, escalate_human, log_decision`
4. Hard stop triggers: hallucination_budget | escalation keyword `URGENT-2`
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 21 Bump literals mindset by 29.