Lesson 028: Adapter calculus vs prompting
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Adapter calculus vs prompting:28 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter calculus vs prompting · drill v8 · spin
662956. - 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: 1693
- completion_budget_tokens: 815
- cache_signature: `3a58`
Hypothesis: halving completions moves P95 `5`%; record actuals.
Practice
Practice Pair with multilingual SME review—even if hypothetical. — 28 Bump literals mindset by 20.