Lesson 062: Multimodal cost discipline
Focus
Prefer explicit failure rehearsals over aspirational wording. Token Multimodal cost discipline:62 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Multimodal cost discipline · drill v2 · spin
634469. - 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
Tool contract rehearsal
{
"name": "reindexSlice",
"arguments": { "corpus": "corpus-6", "dry_run": true }
}
Preconditions: index lag < 13h
FAILURE: page platform if lag > SLA without VP memo.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; capture user-facing fallback copy. — 62 Bump 28.