http://programmer.ie/tags/react/ Recent content in ReAct on Programmer.ie Hugo en-us Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:05:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/dspy-from-first-principles/14-chapter/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:05:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/dspy-from-first-principles/14-chapter/ <h1 id="agents-are-programs-too">Agents Are Programs Too</h1> <p>Chapter 13 gave failures language. The optimizer can receive feedback, reflect, and propose better instructions.</p> <p>The next limitation is access. Our editorial program receives a sentence and local context. A repository repair program cannot be handed the whole world as one input and expected to behave.</p> <p>The naive shape is:</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>issue </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>+ </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>huge repository context </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> ↓ </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>model </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> ↓ </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>patch </span></span></code></pre></div><p>The stronger shape gives the program <strong>bounded capabilities</strong> rather than one giant input:</p>