DSPy team questions hand-written Jev code

DSPy @DSPyOSSOriginally posted 2026.09.21

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It's exciting that everyone's learning about "programming, rather than prompting, AI models" thanks to Jev, but the deeper point is still missing. Asking a frontier agent is like managing a person. Hand-crafting Jev code is like hand-writing assembly for a niche RISC machine, a form of premature optimization. Both have their use, but both are generally too extreme for engineering good systems that endure the bitter lesson.