DSPy Comes to OTP

Imp 0.5.0 ports DSPy to Elixir and the BEAM runtime, bringing typed LLM signatures, multiple prompt optimizers, and agent loops backed by OTP supervision. It's early and experimental, but the combination of DSPy's systematic optimization approach and the actor model's fault tolerance is a genuinely interesting fit for production agentic systems.

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Jev on Your Own Metal

Ollaya ships as a Rust daemon that pulls open decision models (Laya, Decider, NLI, GLiClass, Von, Qwen3guard) locally and serves them behind a TypeSafe-compatible API. Set an environment variable and existing Jev clients point at localhost — 8–10 ms per five-question request on a 4090, no API key, Apache-2.0.

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The Agent Lives in a Lisp Image

Lambda Symbolics' Autolith is a Common Lisp programming agent that runs inside a live SBCL image it can inspect and redefine at runtime — a design that takes the Lisp machine idea of a persistent, self-modifiable environment and applies it to AI coding agents.

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The Unix-Friendly LLM CLI Grows Up

LLM 0.32, Simon Willison's CLI tool for talking to hundreds of models, ships its most significant update since launch: reasoning traces go to stderr, server-side tools replace local execution, and conversation logs adopt a Git-style content-addressable format. Three changes that each solve a real design problem cleanly.

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