Quadrant — Prompt Latency vs Quality
Response latency × answer quality when tuning prompts and pipelines.
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title: Prompt Trade-offs
x-axis: Fast --> Slow
y-axis: Low Quality --> High Quality
quadrant-1: Worth the wait
quadrant-2: Ship it
quadrant-3: Drop
quadrant-4: Tolerable
point: Zero-shot: [0.25, 0.5]
point: Few-shot + tools: [0.8, 0.9]
point: CoT reasoning: [0.7, 0.85]
point: RAG heavy: [0.85, 0.7]