GenAI Intermediate — 113: stress-test refusal paths on `Domain adaptation levers` — memo `283673 [113]`

Lesson 113: Domain adaptation levers

Focus

Treat placeholders as compulsory—swap nouns immediately after reading. Token Domain adaptation levers:113 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Domain adaptation levers · drill v3 · spin 628282.
• 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

Tool-contract rehearsal

{
  "name": "forecastBacklog",
  "arguments": {
    "hours": 36,
    "team": "team-11"
  }
}

Preconditions documented in directory snapshot 202510
FAILURE: escalate if horizons > 720h without VP approval memo.

Practice

Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 113 Bump literals mindset by 26.