Lesson 026: Adapter vs prompt calculus
Focus
Anchor this drill to one production LLM workflow—even hypothetical. Token Adapter vs prompt calculus:26 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter vs prompt calculus · drill v6 · spin
169790. - 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
Token CFO scratchpad
- prompt_budget: 1859
- completion_budget: 725
- cache_key: `3465`
Hypothesis: halving completions moves P95 ~5% — record actuals.
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if cost-per-request crosses your guardrail. — 26 Bump 12.