If Dspy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?

https://skylarbpayne.com/posts/dspy-engineering-patterns/

If DSPy is So Great, Why Isn't Anyone Using It?

Any sufficiently complicated AI system contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden implementation of half of DSPy.

Skylar Payne

> f"Extract the company name from: {text}"

I think one thing that's lost in all of the LLM tooling is that it's LLM-or-nothing and people have lost knowledge of other ML approaches that actually work just fine, like entity recognition.

I understand it's easier to just throw every problem at an LLM but there are things where off-the-shelf ML/NLP products work just as well without the latency or expense.

Oh 100%! There are many problems (including this one!) that probably aren't best suited for an LLM. I was just trying to pick a really simple example that most people would follow.