Lesson 016: RAG design trade spaces
Focus
Anchor this page against one production workflow—even hypothetical. Token RAG design trade spaces:16 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: RAG design trade spaces · drill v6 · spin
517111. - 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 16
INPUTS:
- excerpts tagged [chunk_id ...]
- guardrails referencing policy_bundle_11
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 15 and 42?
Practice
Practice Pair with multilingual SME review—even if hypothetical. — 16 Bump literals mindset by 13.