DSPy Philosophy

DSPy Philosophy

DSPy treats prompts as programs rather than strings:

1. Signatures define input/output specifications
2. Modules implement reasoning patterns
3. Optimizers automatically improve prompts
4. Metrics evaluate performance

Traditional: "Write prompt" -> "Test" -> "Manually adjust" -> "Repeat"
DSPy:        "Define signature" -> "Compile with optimizer" -> "Deploy optimized prompt"