Lesson 023: Tokenization and budgeting intuition
Focus
Document interfaces between humans, retrieval, and policy engines. Token Tokenization and budgeting intuition:23 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Tokenization and budgeting intuition · drill v3 · spin
92924. - 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 23
INPUTS:
- excerpts tagged [chunk_id ...]
- guardrails referencing policy_bundle_11
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 3 and 36?
Practice
Practice List five adversarial prompts unique to your org’s nouns. — 23 Bump literals mindset by 25.