Lesson 7: Serving in practice: quality, engines, adapters, cost, honest numbers
32 min read·13 Oct 2026
Module 11 · Lesson 7 · About 50 minutes · Needs: Lesson 1 of this module (the serving contract and the cached decoder); Lessons 3 to 6 help but are not required
The situation
Sol 436, the last day of the outage. Hana Aoki, the Compute Officer, wants one page before the link returns: which compressed base to keep, what an engine adds, whether one server can hold Maya's planned variants, and what a token costs. "Every number on it must survive Kofi."
The running example is Tariq's request from Lesson 1, Log 4821, sol 434, the night shift., continued greedily: "Maya Nilsson, robotics engineer, replaced the airlock motor".