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Buyer's guides

Prompts & Optimization

Every Prompts & Optimization comparison and buyer's guide for building AI agents — 2 pieces and counting. Each is a head-to-head or a “best X for Y” roundup with a sources-backed verdict.

The Wire

Prompt Compression for LLM Agents: LLMLingua vs LLMLingua-2 vs Selective Context

Tools that shrink a prompt by 2–20x before it hits the model promise a smaller token bill. Whether you actually save anything depends on a comparison nobody runs first — compression versus caching.

The Stack

DSPy vs TextGrad vs AdalFlow: Optimizing Prompts Instead of Writing Them

Three Python libraries that treat your prompt as a parameter to be tuned, not a string to be hand-crafted. They disagree about what the optimizer needs from you — and that's the whole decision.

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