Ian Yu
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Ian Yu
@ianyu93
AI Engineering is saving my mental health
The dspy.RLM module is now released 👀 Install DSPy 3.1.2 to try it. Usage is plug-and-play with your existing Signatures. A little example of it helping @lateinteraction and I figure out some scattered backlogs:
If you haven't read about The Software Crisis of the 60s/70s you should: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_… Productivity ground to a halt before they developed good abstractions for managing software complexity in software. Without good platforms it'll happen again.
Giving the model symbolic access to its own prompt is key, just like allowing models to “think” before they begin producing output was key. It might be worth thinking about all the ways one can give the model such “pointers”. A standard REPL is not strictly necessary.
I will be so disappointed if the way we build software with AI remains vibe coding rather than a genuinely higher level of abstraction. I want to express the “code” of the system—but shorter and more pleasant—not manage an agent to write 100,000 lines of low-level slop for me.
This year, I've gotten a ton positive feedback on my writing from people in all walks of life: engineers, academics, CEOs, VCs and even non-technical folks. So I put some thought into why that is, and externalized my thinking into this blog post 👇🏽 1/3 thedataquarry.com/blog/a-framewo…
