GEPA Explained — From Paper to Working Code in 10 Minutes

If you've ever thought "I wish I could improve my LLM pipeline without burning GPU budget on fine-tuning," GEPA is what you've been waiting for. TL;DR 🧬 GEPA = G enetic- P areto E volutionary P rompt A daptation 🏆 ICLR 2026 Oral paper from UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab ⚡ Outperforms GRPO/PPO on compound AI tasks — zero GPU required 🔧 Works with any black-box LLM (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, etc.) 📦 Ships as dspy.GEPA — drop-in optimizer for DSPy pipelines The Problem Picture this: you've built…