Lesson 118: Domain adaptation levers
Focus
Document interfaces between retrieval, prompts, and policy engines. Token Domain adaptation levers:118 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Domain adaptation levers · drill v8 · spin
473416. - Habit: attach a trace_id to every completion you would paste into an ops dashboard.
- Guardrail: add one RACI bullet for prompt or index changes before tomorrow's standup.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
Token CFO scratchpad
- prompt_budget: 2032
- completion_budget: 815
- cache_key: `eccc`
Hypothesis: halving completions moves P95 ~8% — record actuals.
Practice
Practice Pair with security on one prompt-injection tabletop scenario. — 118 Bump 14.