Lesson 029: Adapter calculus vs prompting
Focus
Treat placeholders as compulsory—swap nouns immediately after reading. Token Adapter calculus vs prompting:29 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter calculus vs prompting · drill v9 · spin
698764. - 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
Logging field note
| Field | Retention |
|-------|-----------|
| trace_id | 15 days |
| prompt_hash_sha256 | permanent |
| completion_excerpt_redacted | 24h hot, then cold vault |
Heuristic `pii-mask-v0` tags sensitive spans before persistence.
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if evaluator variance spikes. — 29 Bump literals mindset by 33.