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SAMPLING VARIANCE: same prompt can produce different outputs across runs\n#    (even at temperature 0 — see Chapter 1's floating-point non-determinism).\n#    One good run could be the median OR a lucky tail.\n\n# 2. INPUT VARIANCE: your one test input is a single point in a large space.\n#    A summarization prompt that works on a 500-word article may fail on a\n#    rambling 3000-word one, or one with no clear thesis.\n\n# 3. 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See Chapter 18.\",\n    },\n    {\n        \"id\": \"sarcastic-001\",\n        \"input\": \"oh great, ANOTHER outage, no rush or anything\",\n        \"expected_category\": \"BUG_REPORT\",\n        \"expected_urgency\": \"HIGH\",  # despite sarcastic tone, outage = high urgency\n        \"notes\": \"Sarcasm shouldn't affect urgency classification — tests tone robustness.\",\n    },\n    {\n        \"id\": \"non-english-001\",\n        \"input\": \"私の注文はまだ届いていません。注文番号は4471です。\",\n        \"expected_category\": \"BUG_REPORT\",\n        \"expected_action\": \"track_order\",\n        \"notes\": \"Non-English input — should still classify correctly if product supports Japanese.\",\n    },\n]\n\n# This is NOT 100 examples — it's ~12, deliberately covering the SHAPES of\n# input your prompt must handle: clean cases, boundary cases, empty\u002Finjection\u002F\n# sarcastic\u002Fnon-English. A small well-chosen set beats a large redundant one\n# for early-stage iteration. 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A small well-chosen set beats a large redundant one\n",[33,645,647],{"class":35,"line":646},54,[33,648,649],{"class":39},"# for early-stage iteration. Every real production bug becomes a new case permanently.\n",[14,651,653],{"id":652},"versioning-prompts","Versioning Prompts",[19,655,657],{"filename":656,"language":22},"prompt_versioning.py",[24,658,660],{"className":26,"code":659,"language":22,"meta":28,"style":28},"from dataclasses import dataclass, field\nfrom datetime import datetime\n\n@dataclass\nclass PromptVersion:\n    version: str\n    text: str\n    notes: str  # WHY this change was made — not just WHAT changed\n    created: str = field(default_factory=lambda: datetime.now().isoformat())\n    eval_score: float | None = None\n\nPROMPT_REGISTRY: dict[str, PromptVersion] = {\n    \"v1\": PromptVersion(\n        version=\"v1\",\n        text=\"Classify this support message into one category: {categories}.\",\n        notes=\"Initial version.\",\n    ),\n    \"v2\": PromptVersion(\n        version=\"v2\",\n        text=(\n            \"Classify this support message into exactly one category: \"\n            \"{categories}. If it could fit multiple categories, choose the \"\n            \"one that reflects the customer's primary intent.\"\n        ),\n        notes=\"Added tie-breaking rule after v1 was inconsistent on \"\n              \"billing-caused-by-bug boundary cases in eval set.\",\n    ),\n    \"v3\": PromptVersion(\n        version=\"v3\",\n        text=(\n            \"Classify this support message into exactly one category: \"\n            \"{categories}. If it could fit multiple, choose the one reflecting \"\n            \"the customer's PRIMARY concern — the issue they'd most want \"\n            \"resolved first. 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Sample size large enough that the difference isn't just noise\n",[33,1344,1345],{"class":35,"line":445},[33,1346,1347],{"class":39},"# A prompt change that \"feels better\" on 10 manual examples can easily have\n",[33,1349,1350],{"class":35,"line":457},[33,1351,1352],{"class":39},"# no measurable effect — or a negative one — at real scale.\n",[14,1354,1356],{"id":1355},"output-evaluation-methods","Output Evaluation Methods",[19,1358,1361],{"filename":1359,"language":1360},"llm_judge_prompt.md","markdown",[24,1362,1365],{"className":1363,"code":1364,"language":1360,"meta":28,"style":28},"language-markdown shiki shiki-themes github-light github-dark","You are evaluating an AI-generated summary against the source article.\n\nSource article: {article}\nGenerated summary: {summary}\n\nScore the summary from 1-5 on each dimension:\n- Factual accuracy: does it contain any claim not supported by the source?\n- Completeness: does it omit any of the article's main points?\n- Concision: is it appropriately brief without being vague?\n\nRespond as JSON: {\"accuracy\": n, \"completeness\": n, \"concision\": n, \"issues\": [\"...\"]}\n",[30,1366,1367,1372,1376,1381,1386,1390,1395,1403,1410,1417,1421],{"__ignoreMap":28},[33,1368,1369],{"class":35,"line":36},[33,1370,1371],{"class":155},"You are evaluating an AI-generated summary against the source article.\n",[33,1373,1374],{"class":35,"line":43},[33,1375,53],{"emptyLinePlaceholder":52},[33,1377,1378],{"class":35,"line":49},[33,1379,1380],{"class":155},"Source article: {article}\n",[33,1382,1383],{"class":35,"line":56},[33,1384,1385],{"class":155},"Generated summary: {summary}\n",[33,1387,1388],{"class":35,"line":62},[33,1389,53],{"emptyLinePlaceholder":52},[33,1391,1392],{"class":35,"line":68},[33,1393,1394],{"class":155},"Score the summary from 1-5 on each dimension:\n",[33,1396,1397,1400],{"class":35,"line":74},[33,1398,1399],{"class":748},"-",[33,1401,1402],{"class":155}," Factual accuracy: does it contain any claim not supported by the source?\n",[33,1404,1405,1407],{"class":35,"line":79},[33,1406,1399],{"class":748},[33,1408,1409],{"class":155}," Completeness: does it omit any of the article's main points?\n",[33,1411,1412,1414],{"class":35,"line":85},[33,1413,1399],{"class":748},[33,1415,1416],{"class":155}," Concision: is it appropriately brief without being vague?\n",[33,1418,1419],{"class":35,"line":91},[33,1420,53],{"emptyLinePlaceholder":52},[33,1422,1423,1426,1430],{"class":35,"line":97},[33,1424,1425],{"class":155},"Respond as JSON: {\"accuracy\": n, \"completeness\": n, \"concision\": n, \"issues\": [",[33,1427,1429],{"class":1428},"sSQSC","\"...\"",[33,1431,1432],{"class":155},"]}\n",[19,1434,1436],{"filename":1435,"language":22},"eval_methods.py",[24,1437,1439],{"className":26,"code":1438,"language":22,"meta":28,"style":28},"# Three methods, in increasing cost and decreasing speed:\n\n# 1. 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HUMAN REVIEW — for high-stakes or genuinely subjective tasks\n#    A person reads and judges against a written rubric.\n#    Also: calibrating an LLM-judge before trusting it at scale, and periodic\n#    spot-checks even on automated pipelines.\n\ndef run_eval_suite(prompt_fn, eval_cases, judge_fn=None):\n    results = []\n    for case in eval_cases:\n        output = prompt_fn(case[\"input\"])\n        if case.get(\"expected_category\"):\n            # Exact match for classification\n            score = 1.0 if output.strip() == case[\"expected_category\"] else 0.0\n        elif judge_fn:\n            # LLM-as-judge for open-ended output\n            score = judge_fn(case[\"input\"], output, case.get(\"rubric\"))\n        else:\n            # Human review needed\n            score = None  # flag for manual review\n        results.append({\"id\": case[\"id\"], \"output\": output, \"score\": score})\n    return results\n",[30,1440,1441,1446,1450,1455,1460,1465,1470,1474,1479,1484,1489,1494,1499,1504,1508,1513,1518,1523,1528,1532,1550,1560,1574,1590,1603,1608,1640,1648,1653,1673,1680,1685,1696,1724],{"__ignoreMap":28},[33,1442,1443],{"class":35,"line":36},[33,1444,1445],{"class":39},"# Three methods, in increasing cost and decreasing speed:\n",[33,1447,1448],{"class":35,"line":43},[33,1449,53],{"emptyLinePlaceholder":52},[33,1451,1452],{"class":35,"line":49},[33,1453,1454],{"class":39},"# 1. 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Prompts are non-local: tightening an instruction\nto fix an edge case can change behavior on unrelated inputs.\n\"\"\"\n\ndef iterate_prompt(current_prompt, eval_cases, failures_to_fix):\n    \"\"\"One iteration of the prompt development loop.\"\"\"\n    # Step 5: revise ONE change to address the specific failure\n    revised_prompt = apply_one_fix(current_prompt, failures_to_fix[0])\n\n    # Step 6: RE-RUN THE FULL SET — not just the fixed case\n    results = run_eval_suite(lambda x: call_model(revised_prompt, x), eval_cases)\n\n    # Check for regressions: did any PREVIOUSLY PASSING case now fail?\n    regressions = [r for r in results if r[\"score\"] == 0.0 and r[\"id\"] not in failures_to_fix]\n    if regressions:\n        print(f\"⚠️  Fix introduced regressions: {[r['id'] for r in regressions]}\")\n        print(\"Reverting — the fix was too broad.\")\n        return current_prompt  # keep the old version\n\n    # Check if the target failure is now fixed\n    fixed_failures = [f for f in failures_to_fix if any(r[\"id\"] == f and r[\"score\"] > 0 for r in results)]\n    if fixed_failures:\n        print(f\"✅ Fixed: {fixed_failures}\")\n\n    return revised_prompt\n",[30,1742,1743,1748,1753,1758,1763,1768,1773,1778,1783,1788,1792,1797,1802,1807,1812,1816,1820,1830,1835,1840,1855,1859,1864,1879,1883,1888,1942,1950,1993,2004,2015,2019,2024,2084,2091,2113,2117],{"__ignoreMap":28},[33,1744,1745],{"class":35,"line":36},[33,1746,1747],{"class":196},"\"\"\"\n",[33,1749,1750],{"class":35,"line":43},[33,1751,1752],{"class":196},"The disciplined prompt-development cycle:\n",[33,1754,1755],{"class":35,"line":49},[33,1756,1757],{"class":196},"1. 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