Stop hand-writing agent 'assembly': compilers like DSPy are the key idea
lateinteraction · x · 2026-09-19
Developer lateinteraction argues people are still missing the key idea in agent engineering: nobody writes RISC (or even CISC) instructions by hand — a compiler maps your higher-level language, corresponding to a simple abstract machine, down into the optimized soup of low-level operations. Likewise, agent development should rely on compiler-style frameworks (like DSPy) or interpreter-style ones (like RLMS) rather than hand-crafting low-level agent calls.
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