The Independent Variable

DSPy Part 5: The Portable Fact-Checker – One Codebase, Any Model

Jan 20, 20253 min read

Or: How to Make Your AI a Polyglot (Without Teaching It 10 Languages) · The Problem: Model Lock-In Is a Jail of Your Own Making After months of training,...

DSPy Part 5: The Portable Fact-Checker – One Codebase, Any Model

DSPy Part 4: When AI Meets Chaos – Ambiguous Claims, Biased Data, and Trolls

Jan 20, 20253 min read

Or: Teaching Your AI to Say “I Don’t Know” (and Shut Down Conspiracy Theories) · The Problem: AI’s Midlife Crisis Our fact-checking intern, Chatty, has...

DSPy Part 4: When AI Meets Chaos – Ambiguous Claims, Biased Data, and Trolls

DSPy Part 3: AI Librarian – DSPy + Databases = Hallucination Killer

Jan 20, 20254 min read

Or: How to Turn a "Know-It-All" Into a "Know-It-From-Books" · The Problem: AI’s Greatest Flaw (It Thinks It’s Aristotle) Our fact-checking intern,...

DSPy Part 3: AI Librarian – DSPy + Databases = Hallucination Killer

DSPy Part 2: Fact-Checking 101 – Teaching AI to Stop Making Stuff Up

Jan 20, 20254 min read

Or: How to Turn a Bullshtting Intern into a Trustworthy Assistant* · The Problem: AI Loves to Wing It Let’s revisit Chatty, our overeager intern. You ask...

DSPy Part 2: Fact-Checking 101 – Teaching AI to Stop Making Stuff Up

DSPy for Dummies: Taming Language Models Without Losing Your Mind

Jan 20, 20254 min read

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Compiler · The Problem: Language Models Are Like Overeager Interns Imagine you’ve hired a brilliant but...

DSPy for Dummies: Taming Language Models Without Losing Your Mind

Advanced Meta Patterns in Python

Jan 10, 20253 min read

In our design pattern series, let’s now look at a more advanced design pattern used in SQLAlchemy.One of the most ingenious patterns in SQLAlchemy is...

Advanced Meta Patterns in Python