Drew Breunig

Writing about and working on AI, DSPy, geo, and data.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@LakshyAAAgrawal @JayD0ubleu @_philschmid Can't ask for better results than this DSPy/GEPA case study: https://t.co/VLJ7iWlNFc

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

At our last DSPy meetup, @kshetrajna shared this amazing case study about how he's using DSPy at @Shopify scale. I think this was my favorite slide.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@NoahZiems @willccbb Psh, you can do that in Boston

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@NoahZiems @willccbb It’s the best. Gonna make you a list of things you need to do while here.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@kmad @lennypruss @trq212 @CAISconf Yes, complexity just moves elsewhere. Talked to to PHD students working on verifying code with proofs, and the challenge is they’re asking users to write great specs.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

"Every gap you leave, Claude fills with in-distribution choice." – @trq212 at @CAISconf

I keep thinking about this quote, contrasted with the market and users creating and asking for features and apps that let them provide LESS input. 🫠

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

1password is excellent when you're on a Mac with TouchID. If you're not, it's slow and constantly breaks your flow.

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

I remember when I enjoyed 1Password. Those days are long gone. And bitwarden is down a dark path. Is there something actually good in that space? If not: why not?

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@sh_reya @raveeshbhalla @nbaschez The feature that I miss most from my last harness is "reader confusion": I build the ability to define 'audiences' and then spot potential areas of confusion for a given audience (and why). Follow up questions were also proposed.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@anjali_shriva Yes, way after the ipo, in Nov.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@raveeshbhalla @sh_reya @nbaschez Yes, I am in the same camp here but will say there are some tasks I will delegate as I write to stay in focus mode.

Can’t find an example or a link, delegate an agent to dig it up while I keep heads down.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@RockportAI @AlexBarba lol, hi claude.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

https://t.co/NBUrlvQryh

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@ChainZenit @CAISconf Nah, not at all. Great mix of diverse practitioners, researchers, and industry. Lots of good arguments!

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

Hard to express how high the signal-to-noise ratio was at @CAISconf. So much great content, so many great chats with people getting their hands dirty working on hard problems. Incredible.

[Braden Hancock @bradenjhancock]

@CAISconf was sold out but small, focused on a particular well-scoped area (compound agentic systems). Some workshop papers were submitted as late as just a couple weeks before (fresh content), and good thing, too! Agentic systems already look quite different today than even 3 months ago.

Perhaps the systems focus naturally attracts researchers who are inclined to build prototypes and libraries (not just publish), but I was still pleasantly surprised to see how many members of the Laude community had independently identified this conference as one they wanted to submit to and attend. On top of that, throwing a lounge after hours with food, drinks, demos, salon-style conversation, (and a mini podcast studio, because why not?) made it easy to get an even higher concentration of interesting people with interesting half-baked ideas in a particular niche that happens to be on fire right now.

Loved the experience. Well-done, CAIS organizers (@heathercmiller, @lateinteraction, @matei_zaharia, @deeptir18, et al). Same time, same place next year?

[Ian Maurer 🧬 @imaurer]

Great article.

Love the below 5 goals for creating good docs by @dbreunig.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

Here's the skill I developed while writing the DSPy docs. Works quiet well! Have thrown it at several repos over the last week and it is better than alternatives I’ve tried. https://t.co/2WY1Kb86Zu

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

https://t.co/NBUrlvQryh

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@JoshPurtell It's a constant battle, but the prose guidelines are reasonably effective.