I don't know, I'm 100% against tearing down other people's FOSS work, but I think it's okay to be more critical once VC money starts flowing. At that point, it'

I don't know, I'm 100% against tearing down other people's FOSS work, but I think it's okay to be more critical once VC money starts flowing. At that point, it's a product jointly owned by venture capitalists for return on investment, and less a labor of love. Anyway, for those of us who've used LangChain a bit, I don't think anything in the article is revelatory, the codebase is structured as a first mover project, with all of the copy+paste and poor abstractions that come with it. It's absolutely great for prototyping and simple scripts, but I don't think I would use it in a production codebase, I found it very difficult to work around the bugs and wonky abstractions.