Prompt Debt Is the Worst: Why DSPy Says Stop Prompting and Start Programming Your LLMs
lateinteraction · x · 2026-09-07
dbreunig's 5-minute explainer coins "Prompt Debt": handwritten prompts scattered across an LLM app accumulate like technical debt — fragile, drifting, and hard to maintain. boswelllabs amplifies it, arguing DSPy makes it easy to stop prompting and start programming LLMs, treating prompts as versioned, optimizable code instead.
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