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Claude for Cheap bulk LLM automation

Prompt design + golden eval set in the Cheap bulk LLM automation stack. Use Claude to draft the prompt, hand-label 30 to 50 golden examples, and define what 'correct' looks like for your task. This is the work where model quality matters most.

· 1 weeks ago
Where Claude fits in the workflow
  1. 1
    Draft the prompt with Claude

    Use Claude's free tier — for prompt iteration, the chat surface is fine. The model quality matters here.

    Prompt · Production prompt + eval set scaffold
    I'm building a production LLM task. Help me draft the prompt and an eval set.
    
    Task description:
    """
    {{describe the task: input, expected output format, what 'correct' means}}
    """
    
    Output, in this order:
    
    1. **System prompt** — the production prompt that will run on every input. Strict output format. No conversational hedging.
    2. **30-row eval set** — table of {input, expected output, why}. Cover the easy cases, the edge cases, and 5 deliberately adversarial inputs.
    3. **Eval rubric** — exactly how I'll score outputs against the expected outputs. Define partial credit if useful.
    4. **Smoke test plan** — the 3 minimum-viable runs I should do before sending real volume to a cheaper model.
    
    The point of all this: I'm going to run the prompt on 100k inputs/month via DeepSeek's API. I want a prompt that survives the swap from Claude (where I'm authoring it) to DeepSeek (where it'll run).
  2. 4
    Monthly sampling with Claude

    Sample 1 to 2% of DeepSeek outputs and re-score with Claude. Catches drift and prompt rot before they become a customer-facing problem.

Cost in this stack
$3 (eval-only)
Of the $5/mo 10k calls/mo budget
Tool pricing
$20/mo Pro · Sonnet API $3/$15 per M tokens (input/output)
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