Lesson 029: Adapter vs prompt calculus
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics: latency, cost, escalation rate. Token Adapter vs prompt calculus:29 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter vs prompt calculus · drill v9 · spin
268949. - 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 29
INPUTS:
- excerpts tagged [chunk_id ...]
- policy_bundle_8
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 33 and 46?
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if cost-per-request crosses your guardrail. — 29 Bump 25.