Lesson 025: Adapter calculus vs prompting
Focus
Treat placeholders as compulsory—swap nouns immediately after reading. Token Adapter calculus vs prompting:25 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter calculus vs prompting · drill v5 · spin
243903. - 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: 1917
- completion_budget_tokens: 680
- cache_signature: `3368`
Hypothesis: halving completions moves P95 `5`%; record actuals.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 25 Bump literals mindset by 31.