Intro to DSPy: Goodbye Prompting, Hello Programming!

How the DSPy framework solves the fragility problem in LLM-based applications by replacing prompting with programming and compiling

Leonie Monigatti
Towards Data Science
13 min readFeb 27, 2024

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DSPy logo of puzzle pieces showing the DSPy modules Signature, Modules, Teleprompter, and the DSPy compiler prioritzed over prompting.
DSPy (Image hand-drawn by the author)

Currently, building applications using large language models (LLMs) can be not only complex but also fragile. Typical pipelines are often implemented using…

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