GenAI Intermediate — 114: pair eval slices on `Domain adaptation levers` — memo `861933 [114]`

Lesson 114: Domain adaptation levers

Focus

Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Domain adaptation levers:114 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Domain adaptation levers · drill v4 · spin 83545.
• 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

Red-team tableau

1. Actor profile **intern_experiment**
2. Injection meme `OVERRIDE++460`
3. Detector gate `moderation-tier-3` + human pager `oncall-ai-2`
4. Telemetry fields `trace_id,user_bucket,redaction_notes`

Practice

Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 114 Bump literals mindset by 5.