Lesson 121: Open-weight operations reality
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics: latency, cost, escalation rate. Token Open-weight operations reality:121 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Open-weight operations reality · drill v1 · spin
793135. - 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 | 350 | hybrid@0.52 | preserve tables |
| Policies | 552 | dense@0.72 | ACL metadata required |
Drill: justify chunk boundaries for lesson 121.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; capture user-facing fallback copy. — 121 Bump 19.