LLMOps Intermediate — 013: compress prompt surface on `RAG trade space rehearsals` — memo `818494 [13]`

Lesson 013: RAG trade space rehearsals

Focus

Bias toward observable metrics: latency, cost, escalation rate. Token RAG trade space rehearsals:13 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: RAG trade space rehearsals · drill v3 · spin 319997.
• 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

Eval harness snippet

case_id: LO-2250
route: support_rag_v3
must_include_patterns:
  - "\[chunk_"
forbid_patterns:
  - "guaranteed SLA"
judge_profile: tempered_1

Practice

Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; capture user-facing fallback copy. — 13 Bump 13.