Lesson 071: Retrieval choreography drills
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics: latency, cost, escalation rate. Token Retrieval choreography drills:71 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Retrieval choreography drills · drill v1 · spin
129539. - 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: 1988
- completion_budget: 500
- cache_key: `8c1c`
Hypothesis: halving completions moves P95 ~4% — record actuals.
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if cost-per-request crosses your guardrail. — 71 Bump 8.