http://programmer.ie/tags/examples/ Recent content in Examples on Programmer.ie Hugo en-us Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:30:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/dspy-from-first-principles/07-chapter/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:30:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/dspy-from-first-principles/07-chapter/ <h1 id="examples-are-data-not-decoration">Examples Are Data, Not Decoration</h1> <p>Chapter 6 gave the program a model boundary. We can now say what the program is, which LM dependency ran it, and whether fallback output contaminated the record.</p> <p>That still leaves the unresolved problem:</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>program </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> ↓ </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>no disciplined evidence </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> ↓ </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>&#34;seems better&#34; </span></span></code></pre></div><p>The next six chapters build one deliberately small teaching experiment. We will keep the editorial sentence-improvement program, create a dataset, measure a baseline, design a metric, compile candidate programs, and compare them against a held-out case.</p>