Lesson 070: Multimodal cost discipline
Focus
Treat placeholders as compulsory—swap nouns immediately after reading. Token Multimodal cost discipline:70 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Multimodal cost discipline · drill v10 · spin
451297. - 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
Token CFO scratchpad
- prompt_budget_tokens: 1468
- completion_budget_tokens: 905
- cache_signature: `8cd6`
Hypothesis: halving completions moves P95 `3`%; record actuals.
Practice
Practice Pair with multilingual SME review—even if hypothetical. — 70 Bump literals mindset by 34.