Build a DSPy email-triage pipeline and use a compiler to auto-tune its prompts and few-shot examples.

DSPy's pitch is to stop hand-writing prompts and instead declare what the pipeline does, define a metric, and let a compiler search for the prompts and examples. The catch is that the compiler is only as good as the metric, and an LLM-judge metric drags its own biases in.

Updated Sep 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.