Lesson 028: Adapter calculus vs prompting
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Adapter calculus vs prompting:28 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter calculus vs prompting · drill v8 · spin
215981. - 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
Agent choreography card
1. Observe transcripts bucket `BUCKET-3`
2. Budget steps `7`
3. Tool whitelist: `retrieve_docs, escalate_human, log_decision`
4. Hard stop triggers: hallucination_budget | escalation keyword `URGENT-2`
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if evaluator variance spikes. — 28 Bump literals mindset by 29.