http://programmer.ie/tags/custom-modules/ Recent content in Custom Modules on Programmer.ie Hugo en-us Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:20:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/dspy-from-first-principles/05-chapter/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:20:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/dspy-from-first-principles/05-chapter/ <h1 id="build-programs-from-programs">Build Programs From Programs</h1> <p>In chapter 4 we ran the same signature with different execution policies. That helped isolate one question:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>Should this behavior be attempted directly or with intermediate reasoning? </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Real applications usually ask a larger question. A sentence-improvement system may need to find what is wrong, generate a candidate, assess risk, and return something the rest of the product can store.</p> <p>That is where a single LM call starts to hide several distinct operations.</p>