Lesson 023: Adapter calculus vs prompting
Focus
Anchor this page against one production workflow—even hypothetical. Token Adapter calculus vs prompting:23 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter calculus vs prompting · drill v3 · spin
74626. - Habit: pair every model utterance with a trace_id you could paste into Grafana.
- Guardrail: write one RACI bullet referencing this lesson tomorrow.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
Token CFO scratchpad
- prompt_budget_tokens: 1460
- completion_budget_tokens: 590
- cache_signature: `2e9e`
Hypothesis: halving completions moves P95 `5`%; record actuals.
Practice
Practice Paste the worked-example template into a wiki stub and annotate owners. — 23 Bump literals mindset by 12.