GenAI Basic — 026: sequence human gates on `Tokenization and budgeting intuition` — memo `724943 [26]`

Lesson 026: Tokenization and budgeting intuition

Focus

Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Tokenization and budgeting intuition:26 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Tokenization and budgeting intuition · drill v6 · spin 373957.
• 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 26
INPUTS:
- excerpts tagged [chunk_id ...]
- guardrails referencing policy_bundle_12
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 5 and 7?

Practice

Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 26 Bump literals mindset by 10.