Is It Time To Treat Prompts As Code? A Multi-Use Case Study For Prompt Optimization Using DSPy

arXiv:2507.03620 · cs.SE, cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2025-07-04 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-07-04

Updated: 2025-07-04

Comments: 20 pages with 1 figure

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-32732-1_3

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hallucination — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Hallucination Detection — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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