Lesson 020: RAG design trade spaces
Focus
Assume an auditor reruns everything you claim; narrate checkpoints aloud. Token RAG design trade spaces:20 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: RAG design trade spaces · drill v10 · spin
43599. - 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-20 checkpoint
- Intent accuracy Δ `0.77`
- Escalation Δ `0.03`
- Spend guardrail `$727/day`
Risk note: Regulator acknowledgement pending
Decision due: ML-Ops
Practice
Practice Paste the worked-example template into a wiki stub and annotate owners. — 20 Bump literals mindset by 25.