Lesson 067: Multimodal cost discipline
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Multimodal cost discipline:67 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Multimodal cost discipline · drill v7 · spin
26077. - 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 | 464 | hybrid@0.55 | keep tables contiguous |
| Policies | 486 | dense@0.68 | include footnotes |
Drill: justify why chunk boundaries fall where they do for lesson 67.
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if evaluator variance spikes. — 67 Bump literals mindset by 35.