Lesson 030: Adapter vs prompt calculus
Focus
Prefer explicit failure rehearsals over aspirational wording. Token Adapter vs prompt calculus:30 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter vs prompt calculus · drill v10 · spin
850530. - 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
Eval harness snippet
case_id: LO-5192
route: support_rag_v3
must_include_patterns:
- "\[chunk_"
forbid_patterns:
- "guaranteed SLA"
judge_profile: tempered_5
Practice
Practice Pair with security on one prompt-injection tabletop scenario. — 30 Bump 32.