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AI agents need the right context at the right time to do a good job. Too much input increases cost and harms accuracy, while too little causes instability and hallucinations. Context Engineering with DSPy introduces a practical, evaluation-driven way to design AI systems that remain reliable, predictable, and easy to maintain as they grow. AI engineer and educator Mike Taylor explains DSPy in a clear, approachable style, showing how its modular structure, portable programs, and built-in optimizers help teams move beyond guesswork. Through real examples and step-by-step guidance, you'll learn how DSPy's signatures, modules, datasets, and metrics work together to solve context engineering problems that evolve as models change and workloads scale. This book supports AI engineers, data scientists, machine learning practitioners, and software developers building AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and multistep reasoning workflows that hold up in...

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ssemble your evals, and let the optimizer handle the prompt. Drew Breunig, CEO and cofounder of Cmpnd, editor of The Context Engineering Handbook Mike is a D...
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eleases may change experimental APIs used later in the book. Tip When using the recommended uv workflow, you do not need to activate the virtual environment....
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xercises, etc.) is available for download at https://github.com/hammer-mt/context-engineering-dspy-book . If you have a technical question or a problem using...
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chniques for efficiently managing context were a necessity . In my previous book, Prompt Engineering for Generative AI , James Phoenix and I proposed five pr...
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hard it is to understand the overly academic documentation. This has served as a barrier to adoption, keeping DSPy somewhat in obscurity as a rare open secre...
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g and end, completely ignoring the bug report in the middle. Prompt engineers have long written their prompts to have the important task information at the t...
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lucinations would cause persistent damage to agent behavior. In this example, while the Gemini agent played Pokémon, misinformation would sometimes make it i...
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calate . The desc values explain what each field represents. DSPy uses the docstring, field names, types, and descriptions to construct a structured prompt l...
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Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Publish Year: 2026
Language: English
File Format: EPUB
File Size: 3.3 MB