Lesson 020: Prompt literacy checkpoints
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Prompt literacy checkpoints:20 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Prompt literacy checkpoints · drill v10 · spin
753918. - 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: 1444
- completion_budget_tokens: 905
- cache_signature: `283d`
Hypothesis: halving completions moves P95 `4`%; record actuals.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 20 Bump literals mindset by 41.