acknowledgments
We thank the people who created DSPy (including hundreds of contributors), our families, the editors who worked on this book, the reviewers, especially acquisition editor Jonathan Gennick, without whom this endeavor wouldn’t exist, development editor Doug Rudder, who generously helped us to make the book clear but also authentic, and everyone at Manning.
Also, many thanks go to our technical editor Martin Welß. Martin has worked for more than 30 years as a software engineer and architect with Java, Python, and Linux. Since 2019, his focus has been on AI, and he leads the open source project Eclipse Graphene, which is a system to create cognitive architectures from reusable building blocks.
To all the reviewers—Ako Heidari, Alejandro Cuevas Rivero, Alisson Sol, Allen Ding, Amogh Mishra, Anuj Ashok Potdar, Ariel Pérez, Arnab Saha, Benoy Maniara, Breno Brito, Clyde Kallahan, Cyrus Nouroozi, Dan Klose, Dhar Rawal, Dhyey Dharmendrakumar Mavani, Dima Timofeev, Hanna Moazam, Heng Zhang, Herumb Shandilya, Isaac Miller, Jim Matlock, Jiri Pik, Thadaka Kalyan Chakravarthy, Kaushik Varadha Rajan, Krishna Rekapalli, Kurt McKee, Louis Luangkesorn, Maitrik Patel, Matteo Mazzola, Mirerfan Gheibi, Juhyeong Lee, Patrick D. Mobley, Pratap Ramamurthy, Sarbani Paul, Saurabh Vinayak Sakalkar, Sebastian Krämer, Sergio Govoni, Shangyin Tan, Stepan Plotytsia, Thomas J. Kelly, Xiao Cui, and Yijun Xie—your suggestions helped make this a better book.