Lesson 029: Adapter calculus vs prompting
Focus
Prefer explicit failure rehearsals over aspirational wording. Token Adapter calculus vs prompting:29 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter calculus vs prompting · drill v9 · spin
811754. - 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++595`
3. Detector gate `moderation-tier-2` + human pager `oncall-ai-1`
4. Telemetry fields `trace_id,user_bucket,redaction_notes`
Practice
Practice List five adversarial prompts unique to your org’s nouns. — 29 Bump literals mindset by 37.