[isaacbmiller]

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> as opposed to solving an actual problem

This was literally the point of the post. No one really knows what the future of LLMs will look like, so DSPy just iteratively changes in the best way it can for your metric (your problem).

> someone actually using for something other than a toy example

DSPy, among the problems I listed in the post, has some scalability problems, too, but I am not going to take away from that. There are at least early signs of enterprise adoption from posts like this blog: https://www.databricks.com/blog/optimizing-databricks-llm-pi...