Thanks to @lateinteraction for creating @DSPyOSS and encouraging me out of my imposter syndrome, and @dbreunig for convincing @OReillyMedia this topic was a good bet. Thanks @LakshyAAAgrawal for making GEPA the optimizer that has been dominating every prompt I try. Also @isaacbmiller1 the lead maintainer of DSPy, @jamesaphoenix12 coauthor of my last book, @Shashikant86 and Sriharsha Annamaneni for technical review. Thanks to my colleagues @danshipper and @kieranklaassen for reading and endorsing the book before it was published. Thanks also to the team at O'Reilly, Jeff, Nicole, Beth for making my writing fit to print. The wider DSPy community @MaximeRivest, @getpy, and @_rchaves_ and everyone who was patient enough to explain to a naive prompt engineer why we didn't need prompts anymore. Finally thanks to my wife and kids (who thankfully aren't on X), for giving me 9 months of evenings and weekends to get this done.

Q: How do I make the case for investing in evaluations to my team? A: Review real user interactions and show your team the problems you find. Fix them, then show what improved.

launched a model accidentally served trillions of tokens a day 29.4% of the fortune 500 showed up raised a really big series A from @a16z it's been 3 weeks we would like to sleep now

We're experiencing Accelerando at @every – the tempo is getting progressively faster as we go deeper on adopting AI. I finally dialed things in with Claude and ran 8 new experiments and wrote 4 posts in one week, which would normally be a whole month's work. None of it is live yet because realistically we only have space for 2-4 things from me per month in the newsletter. @kieranklaassen had to go around the normal clogged up release process and put things live on a new frontier page. He asked in today's meeting "what happens when we can publish 100 apps in one week?". Nobody has a good answer for that yet. We're not prepared for what happens when our output is 100x.

I finally have a writing skill I'm happy with that writes like me, and I was able to write 4 posts this week (normally I would average 2 per month). The problem is our editors can only really handle publishing 2 per month from me and AI editing isn't working yet so we're stuck.