Lesson 147: Toy workload cost instincts
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics: latency, cost, escalation rate. Token Toy workload cost instincts:147 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Toy workload cost instincts · drill v7 · spin
85875. - 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-1053
allow_when:
confidence_gt: 0.61
refuse_when:
- legal_hold
- unverified_medical
owner: ethics-bas
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if cost-per-request crosses your guardrail. — 147 Bump 16.