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What is automated prompt optimization (e.g. DSPy), and why move beyond hand-tuning prompts?

Hand-tuned prompts break on the next model upgrade and don't compose across pipeline stages. Frameworks like DSPy compile prompts against a metric instead. The signal is treating prompting as an optimized program. Here is the answer.

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Hand-tuned prompts break on the next model upgrade and don't compose across pipeline stages. Frameworks like DSPy compile prompts against a metric instead. The signal is treating prompting as an optimized program. Here is the answer.

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