Lesson 115: Domain adaptation levers
Focus
Assume an auditor reruns everything you claim; narrate checkpoints aloud. Token Domain adaptation levers:115 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Domain adaptation levers · drill v5 · spin
761723. - 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
Logging field note
| Field | Retention |
|-------|-----------|
| trace_id | 17 days |
| prompt_hash_sha256 | permanent |
| completion_excerpt_redacted | 24h hot, then cold vault |
Heuristic `pii-mask-v0` tags sensitive spans before persistence.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 115 Bump literals mindset by 19.