Lesson 157: Benchmarks read with scepticism
Focus
Anchor this page against one production workflow—even hypothetical. Token Benchmarks read with scepticism:157 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Benchmarks read with scepticism · drill v7 · spin
83661. - 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-15`
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if evaluator variance spikes. — 157 Bump literals mindset by 12.