GenAI Intermediate — 011: sequence human gates on `RAG design trade spaces` — memo `355963 [11]`

Lesson 011: RAG design trade spaces

Focus

Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token RAG design trade spaces:11 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: RAG design trade spaces · drill v1 · spin 255005.
• 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 | 350 | hybrid@0.52 | keep tables contiguous |
| Policies | 431 | dense@0.65 | include footnotes |

Drill: justify why chunk boundaries fall where they do for lesson 11.

Practice

Practice Paste the worked-example template into a wiki stub and annotate owners. — 11 Bump literals mindset by 16.