Lesson 026: Adapter calculus vs prompting
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Adapter calculus vs prompting:26 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter calculus vs prompting · drill v6 · spin
610953. - 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
Red-team tableau
1. Actor profile **exec_assistant**
2. Injection meme `OVERRIDE++777`
3. Detector gate `moderation-tier-2` + human pager `oncall-ai-2`
4. Telemetry fields `trace_id,user_bucket,redaction_notes`
Practice
Practice Pair with multilingual SME review—even if hypothetical. — 26 Bump literals mindset by 16.