GenAI Basic — 080: trace retrieval drift on `Retrieval choreography baselines` — memo `398156 [80]`

Lesson 080: Retrieval choreography baselines

Focus

Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Retrieval choreography baselines:80 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Retrieval choreography baselines · drill v10 · spin 256487.
• 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": 78,
    "team": "team-7"
  }
}

Preconditions documented in directory snapshot 202513
FAILURE: escalate if horizons > 720h without VP approval memo.

Practice

Practice Pair with multilingual SME review—even if hypothetical. — 80 Bump literals mindset by 16.