Lesson 141: Toy workload cost instincts
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics: latency, cost, escalation rate. Token Toy workload cost instincts:141 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Toy workload cost instincts · drill v1 · spin
278174. - 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
Refusal RACI
policy_id: LLM-141
allow_when:
confidence_gt: 0.61
refuse_when:
- legal_hold
- unverified_medical
owner: ethics-bas
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; capture user-facing fallback copy. — 141 Bump 5.