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The Point of LangChain – With Harrison Chase of LangChain
- swyx 3y agohey HN! we are so excited to present our writeup and podcast on LangChain! there have been lots of criticism leveled against LangChain here last month and so I hope this gives people a chance to get to know the project from the author's own words and my short summary of it. let me know if there are any comments!
- pico_creator 3y agoI feel that langchain is the early jQuery of the AI world. It is useful if you are abstracting multiple models, less so if you are only using openAI with no vectorDB (where it may become an overhead) It is opinionated, bloated, but it works. Just like jQuery, must you use it everywhere? maybe not, but many times, if you just need that one function it supports in a chain. It is super useful to quickly get it up and running in a few lines, once you know the syntax. And perhaps once we finally figure out how AI should be used better, and what works (or not work) in langchain, we would replace the JQuery of the AI world, for something more "modern". Till then, its gonna be this giant swiss army knife ball