Lesson 148: Toy workload cost instincts
Focus
Prefer explicit failure rehearsals over aspirational wording. Token Toy workload cost instincts:148 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Toy workload cost instincts · drill v8 · spin
127310. - 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
Agent choreography
1. Observe bucket `TENANT-14`
2. Max steps `7`
3. Tools: `retrieve, escalate_human, log_decision`
4. Stop: spend cap | keyword `STOP-14`
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; capture user-facing fallback copy. — 148 Bump 20.