Lesson 142: Cost instincts on toy workloads
Focus
Treat placeholders as compulsory—swap nouns immediately after reading. Token Cost instincts on toy workloads:142 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Cost instincts on toy workloads · drill v2 · spin
286346. - 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
Agent choreography card
1. Observe transcripts bucket `BUCKET-8`
2. Budget steps `6`
3. Tool whitelist: `retrieve_docs, escalate_human, log_decision`
4. Hard stop triggers: hallucination_budget | escalation keyword `URGENT-14`
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 142 Bump literals mindset by 23.