GenAI Intermediate — 013: sequence human gates on `RAG design trade spaces` — memo `687662 [13]`

Lesson 013: RAG design trade spaces

Focus

Prefer explicit failure rehearsals over aspirational wording. Token RAG design trade spaces:13 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: RAG design trade spaces · drill v3 · spin 31600.
• 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

Prompt scaffold

ROLE: Incident analyst cohort 13
INPUTS:
- excerpts tagged [chunk_id ...]
- guardrails referencing policy_bundle_12
TASK:
  1) Summarize deltas with citations
  2) Confidence label LOW|MED|HIGH + evidence
  3) If facts missing emit MISSING_FACTS list
USER_SEED_QUESTION >>> What changed between rollout 28 and 1?

Practice

Practice Draft three eval assertions QA must greenlight before launch. — 13 Bump literals mindset by 30.