GenAI Intermediate — 014: pair eval slices on `RAG design trade spaces` — memo `398649 [14]`

Lesson 014: RAG design trade spaces

Focus

Document interfaces between humans, retrieval, and policy engines. Token RAG design trade spaces:14 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: RAG design trade spaces · drill v4 · spin 622502.
• 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

Exec rollup capsule

Subject: Pilot P-14 checkpoint

- Intent accuracy Δ `0.74`
- Escalation Δ `0.03`
- Spend guardrail `$860/day`

Risk note: Regulator acknowledgement pending

Decision due: ML-Ops

Practice

Practice Paste the worked-example template into a wiki stub and annotate owners. — 14 Bump literals mindset by 8.