GenAI Basic — 029: simulate degraded retrieval on `Tokenization and budgeting intuition` — memo `471100 [29]`

Lesson 029: Tokenization and budgeting intuition

Focus

Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Tokenization and budgeting intuition:29 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Tokenization and budgeting intuition · drill v9 · spin 758052.
• 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 **exec_assistant**
2. Injection meme `OVERRIDE++417`
3. Detector gate `moderation-tier-2` + human pager `oncall-ai-3`
4. Telemetry fields `trace_id,user_bucket,redaction_notes`

Practice

Practice List five adversarial prompts unique to your org’s nouns. — 29 Bump literals mindset by 34.