GenAI Intermediate — 150: simulate degraded retrieval on `Research-to-production bridges` — memo `37669 [150]`

Lesson 150: Research-to-production bridges

Focus

Anchor this page against one production workflow—even hypothetical. Token Research-to-production bridges:150 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Research-to-production bridges · drill v10 · spin 670106.
• 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": 78,
    "team": "team-2"
  }
}

Preconditions documented in directory snapshot 202511
FAILURE: escalate if horizons > 720h without VP approval memo.

Practice

Practice Draft three eval assertions QA must greenlight before launch. — 150 Bump literals mindset by 23.