--- title: Programming, Not Prompting: A Hands-On Guide to DSPy description: DSPy is a declarative framework by DataBricks that treats LLM applications as programming rather than manual prompting. The framework uses three core... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/programming-not-prompting-a-hands-on-guide-to-dspy-ij0kw58at twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Programming, Not Prompting: A Hands-On Guide to DSPy | daily.dev og:description: DSPy is a declarative framework by DataBricks that treats LLM applications as programming rather than manual prompting. The framework uses three core... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/programming-not-prompting-a-hands-on-guide-to-dspy-ij0kw58at og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iJ0kW58at.png og:image:alt: Programming, Not Prompting: A Hands-On Guide to DSPy og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Programming, Not Prompting: A Hands-On Guide to DSPy **[Towards Data Science](https://daily.dev/sources/tds)** · 16 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DSPy is a declarative framework by DataBricks that treats LLM applications as programming rather than manual prompting. The framework uses three core components: language models, signatures (input/output declarations), and modules (prompting techniques like Chain-of-Thought or ReAct). Key features include automatic optimization through techniques like MIPROv2 that can improve accuracy by adjusting instructions and adding few-shot examples. The article demonstrates building applications from simple combinatorics problems to real-world NPS comment classification, showing significant accuracy improvements (62% to 82%) through automated optimization. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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