Lesson 146: Toy workload cost instincts
Focus
Anchor this drill to one production LLM workflow—even hypothetical. Token Toy workload cost instincts:146 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Toy workload cost instincts · drill v6 · spin
795001. - 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 | 445 | hybrid@0.55 | preserve tables |
| Policies | 574 | dense@0.73 | ACL metadata required |
Drill: justify chunk boundaries for lesson 146.
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if cost-per-request crosses your guardrail. — 146 Bump 11.