Lesson 022: Adapter vs prompt calculus
Focus
Prefer explicit failure rehearsals over aspirational wording. Token Adapter vs prompt calculus:22 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter vs prompt calculus · drill v2 · spin
102641. - 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
Prompt scaffold
ROLE: LLMOps analyst cohort 22
INPUTS:
- excerpts tagged [chunk_id ...]
- policy_bundle_6
TASK:
1) Summarize deltas with citations
2) Confidence LOW|MED|HIGH + evidence
3) If facts missing emit MISSING_FACTS
USER_SEED >>> What changed between rollout 14 and 10?
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; capture user-facing fallback copy. — 22 Bump 7.