Lesson 024: Tokenization and budgeting intuition
Focus
Anchor this page against one production workflow—even hypothetical. Token Tokenization and budgeting intuition:24 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Tokenization and budgeting intuition · drill v4 · spin
177248. - 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
Red-team tableau
1. Actor profile **intern_experiment**
2. Injection meme `OVERRIDE++202`
3. Detector gate `moderation-tier-2` + human pager `oncall-ai-3`
4. Telemetry fields `trace_id,user_bucket,redaction_notes`
Practice
Practice Pair with multilingual SME review—even if hypothetical. — 24 Bump literals mindset by 19.