Lesson 029: Adapter vs prompt calculus
Focus
Anchor this drill to one production LLM workflow—even hypothetical. Token Adapter vs prompt calculus:29 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter vs prompt calculus · drill v9 · spin
309434. - 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
Logging contract
| Field | Retention |
|-------|-----------|
| trace_id | 15d |
| prompt_hash | policy-defined |
| completion_excerpt | 24h hot |
Mask tier `pii-v0` before persistence.
Practice
Practice Paste the worked template into an internal wiki stub and name owners. — 29 Bump 34.