Speaker: Drew Breunig
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CEO & Cofounder CMPND, Editor of O'Reilly's "Context Management Handbook", Writer on AI & Data at dbreunig.com, Previously Data Science & Product Lead PlaceIQ
Drew Breunig is the CEO and co-founder of Cmpnd, the team behind the open-source DSPy framework, which helps companies like Dropbox and Shopify build AI applications by programming, not prompting. He writes about AI engineering at dbreunig.com and is the editor of O’Reilly’s upcoming Context Engineering Handbook and previously led data science and product at PlaceIQ.
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Session
Avoiding Prompt Debt & Other Context Failures
As agents evolve, prompts get unruly. Edge cases are patched with one-line hotfixes, or with stacked instructions of escalating severity when an issue proves stubborn. Over time, those instructions pile up into a brittle artifact, overfit to an aging model.