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Maxime builds tools and create content that make LLMs more accessible and powerful for everyone. He is a core contributor to DSPy and has built numerous open-source Python libraries to advance the ecosystem, including attachments, functai, ovllm, dspy-lm-auth, dspy-template-adapter, and mcp2py. Previously, he worked at Elsevier, building AI infrastructure and compound AI programs to cost effectively run on 100 million records weekly.
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Rivest is a hands-on DSPy power-user and prolific open-source toolmaker (attachments, mcp2py, funnydspy, functai) who digs into DSPy's internals and turns them into practical, build-along LLM programs — useful if you want concrete, code-first techniques for programming and optimizing LLMs rather than prompt-tweaking.
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GitHub
@MaximeRivest- MaximeRivest/attachments★ 360Easiest way to give context to LLMs: a general funnel to turn any files into images+text for LLM context in 2 lines of Python.
- MaximeRivest/maivi★ 279My AI Voice Input: real-time, local CPU voice-to-text (better than Whisper) with hotkey support.
- MaximeRivest/mcp2py★ 252Turn any MCP server into a Python module.
- MaximeRivest/functai★ 85Function-style API on top of DSPy where the function definition is the prompt and its body is the program.
- MaximeRivest/funnydspy★ 40Vanilla-Python ergonomics on top of DSPy.
Recent writing (6)
- The Signature Duality: Separating Intent from Mechanism in DSPy · blog · Feb 2026
- DSPy sounds neat, but is it reliable? · blog · Sep 2025
- Hacking DSPy into doing Automatic System Prompt Optimization · blog · Jul 2025
- Build Well and You Will be Rewarded · blog · Jul 2025
- How to Build an Automatically Branching Chat with DSPy · blog · Jul 2025
- A Simple Introduction to DSPy · blog · Jul 2025