Lesson 145: Cost instincts on toy workloads
Focus
Treat placeholders as compulsory—swap nouns immediately after reading. Token Cost instincts on toy workloads:145 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Cost instincts on toy workloads · drill v5 · spin
819308. - 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
Retrieval partitioning plan
| Slice | Tokens | Retrieval mode | Notes |
|-------|--------|----------------|-------|
| FAQs | 426 | hybrid@0.54 | keep tables contiguous |
| Policies | 574 | dense@0.73 | include footnotes |
Drill: justify why chunk boundaries fall where they do for lesson 145.
Practice
Practice Paste the worked-example template into a wiki stub and annotate owners. — 145 Bump literals mindset by 16.