Lesson 023: Adapter calculus vs prompting
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Adapter calculus vs prompting:23 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter calculus vs prompting · drill v3 · spin
273687. - 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
Exec rollup capsule
Subject: Pilot P-23 checkpoint
- Intent accuracy Δ `0.74`
- Escalation Δ `0.033`
- Spend guardrail `$980/day`
Risk note: Throughput saturated
Decision due: CX-Research
Practice
Practice Draft three eval assertions QA must greenlight before launch. — 23 Bump literals mindset by 21.