DSPy
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
3warn against
Dec 18, 2025first mention
Sep 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“your agentic workflows are already using them”
“Dspy handling it openly”
Show 3 more
“Model testing and swapping is one of the surprises people really appreciate DSPy for.”
“I like to look at it like the MVC for the Web.”
Caveats and dissent
“I think a problem to DSPy is that they don't know the concept of THE WHOLE PRODUCT”
“I used dspy in production, then reverted the bloat as it literally gave me nothing of added value in practice but a lot of friction”
used it in productionon “If Dspy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?”
Show 1 more
“I think it takes the "prompt is a parameter" concept a bit too far.”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I made a dspy fork where you can add a decorator”
Threads where it came up
- If Dspy is so great, why isn't anyone using it? 7 mentions
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) 2 mentions
- Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM 1 mention
- Introducing System One Models and Jev 1 mention
- Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications 1 mention
- A good AGENTS.md is a model upgrade. A bad one is worse than no docs at all 1 mention
Data: dspy.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 20
“your agentic workflows are already using them”
“Is this comparable to https://dspy.ai/ ?”
“I know you can somewhat hillclimb via DSPy but that's hard to generalize.”
“this is essentially what Dspy does”
“Dspy handling it openly”
I'm surprised to see nanobot uses LiteLLM: https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot LiteLLM wouldn't be my top choice, because it installs a lot of extra stuff. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646438 But it's quite popular.
“I love DSPy!”
“The name probably doesnt help”
“DSPy is cool from an integrated perspective but as someone who extensively develops agents, there have been two phases to the workflow that prevented me from adopting it”
“Model testing and swapping is one of the surprises people really appreciate DSPy for.”
“I think a problem to DSPy is that they don't know the concept of THE WHOLE PRODUCT”
“I used dspy in production, then reverted the bloat as it literally gave me nothing of added value in practice but a lot of friction”
“I think it takes the "prompt is a parameter" concept a bit too far.”
“DSPy-style optimization”
“use litellm, DSPY to config models”
“CodeAct+DSPy+Prolog”
“Has anyone contrasted gas town to Stanford's DSPY”
“Basically he's describing DSPy”
“I like to look at it like the MVC for the Web.”
“using DSPy and an optimization algo GEPA”