Lesson 021: Adapter calculus vs prompting
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Adapter calculus vs prompting:21 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter calculus vs prompting · drill v1 · spin
756435. - 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 21
INPUTS:
- excerpts tagged [chunk_id ...]
- guardrails referencing policy_bundle_6
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 29 and 28?
Practice
Practice Pair with multilingual SME review—even if hypothetical. — 21 Bump literals mindset by 25.