GenAI Basic — 027: chart token inflation on `Tokenization and budgeting intuition` — memo `561945 [27]`

Lesson 027: Tokenization and budgeting intuition

Focus

Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Tokenization and budgeting intuition:27 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Tokenization and budgeting intuition · drill v7 · spin 447661.
• 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

Tool-contract rehearsal

{
  "name": "forecastBacklog",
  "arguments": {
    "hours": 60,
    "team": "team-2"
  }
}

Preconditions documented in directory snapshot 202505
FAILURE: escalate if horizons > 720h without VP approval memo.

Practice

Practice Draft three eval assertions QA must greenlight before launch. — 27 Bump literals mindset by 26.