Lesson 023: Context window and chunk budgeting
Focus
Anchor this drill to one production LLM workflow—even hypothetical. Token Context window and chunk budgeting:23 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Context window and chunk budgeting · drill v3 · spin
794895. - 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
Retrieval partition plan
| Slice | Tokens | Mode | Notes |
|-------|--------|------|-------|
| FAQs | 388 | hybrid@0.53 | preserve tables |
| Policies | 442 | dense@0.65 | ACL metadata required |
Drill: justify chunk boundaries for lesson 23.
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if cost-per-request crosses your guardrail. — 23 Bump 21.