GenAI Intermediate — 018: sequence human gates on `RAG design trade spaces` — memo `623685 [18]`

Lesson 018: RAG design trade spaces

Focus

Anchor this page against one production workflow—even hypothetical. Token RAG design trade spaces:18 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: RAG design trade spaces · drill v8 · spin 307089.
• 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 | 483 | hybrid@0.56 | keep tables contiguous |
| Policies | 431 | dense@0.65 | include footnotes |

Drill: justify why chunk boundaries fall where they do for lesson 18.

Practice

Practice Draft three eval assertions QA must greenlight before launch. — 18 Bump literals mindset by 25.