Lesson 149: Cost instincts on toy workloads
Focus
Prefer explicit failure rehearsals over aspirational wording. Token Cost instincts on toy workloads:149 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Cost instincts on toy workloads · drill v9 · spin
190924. - 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
Eval YAML snippet
case_id: GX-25791
input_stub: summarise incident_ticket_pool_11
must_include_patterns:
- "\[chunk_"
forbid_patterns:
- "SLA 15m" # unless citations exist
judge_profile: tempered_1
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if evaluator variance spikes. — 149 Bump literals mindset by 25.