Lesson 021: Adapter vs prompt calculus
Focus
Swap placeholder nouns for your internal service names immediately. Token Adapter vs prompt calculus:21 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter vs prompt calculus · drill v1 · spin
679337. - Habit: attach a trace_id to every completion you would paste into an ops dashboard.
- Guardrail: add one RACI bullet for prompt or index changes before tomorrow's standup.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
Tool contract rehearsal
{
"name": "reindexSlice",
"arguments": { "corpus": "corpus-2", "dry_run": true }
}
Preconditions: index lag < 12h
FAILURE: page platform if lag > SLA without VP memo.
Practice
Practice Paste the worked template into an internal wiki stub and name owners. — 21 Bump 2.