Lesson 027: Adapter calculus vs prompting
Focus
Anchor this page against one production workflow—even hypothetical. Token Adapter calculus vs prompting:27 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter calculus vs prompting · drill v7 · spin
141095. - 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
Prompt scaffold
ROLE: Incident analyst cohort 27
INPUTS:
- excerpts tagged [chunk_id ...]
- guardrails referencing policy_bundle_1
TASK:
1) Summarize deltas with citations
2) Confidence label LOW|MED|HIGH + evidence
3) If facts missing emit MISSING_FACTS list
USER_SEED_QUESTION >>> What changed between rollout 12 and 6?
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 27 Bump literals mindset by 31.