GenAI Intermediate — 116: trace retrieval drift on `Domain adaptation levers` — memo `339915 [116]`

Lesson 116: Domain adaptation levers

Focus

Prefer explicit failure rehearsals over aspirational wording. Token Domain adaptation levers:116 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Domain adaptation levers · drill v6 · spin 445504.
• 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": 54,
    "team": "team-11"
  }
}

Preconditions documented in directory snapshot 202513
FAILURE: escalate if horizons > 720h without VP approval memo.

Practice

Practice Attach rollback steps if evaluator variance spikes. — 116 Bump literals mindset by 17.