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I’ll save yall some time. If you are familiar with concatenating strings in python, langchain is a library which does just that, only a little less cleanly. Hope this helps!
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I’ll save yall some time. If you are familiar with concatenating strings in python, langchain is a library which does just that, only a little less cleanly. Hope this helps!
I noticed there is a lot of negativity against langchain on HN. Is it because it's very popular? For example deeplearning.ai has courses on LangChain. You think someone like Andrew Ng will stand behind an overhyped tech?
still not sure of the value of the langchain abstraction. does anyone use it in prod?
> use it in prod? I think that’s the wrong goal. Langchain, with its kitchen-sink approach is great for newbies playing around with language models, to get a feel for the different things possible. The uniform interfaces make it very easy to snap together pieces and try things out (iff you don’t care to understand what’s happening under the hood). Once you know exactly what you need (which might be 10% of Langchain’s…
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I noticed there is a lot of negativity against langchain on HN. Is it because it's very popular? For example deeplearning.ai has courses on LangChain. You think someone like Andrew Ng will stand behind an overhyped tech?
It’s only value is abstractions and it gets these wrong. That said I’m not against it and I hope it improves.
I’ll save yall some time. If you are familiar with concatenating strings in python, langchain is a library which does just that, only a little less cleanly. Hope this helps!
I noticed there is a lot of negativity against langchain on HN. Is it because it's very popular? For example deeplearning.ai has courses on LangChain. You think someone like Andrew Ng will stand behind an overhyped tech?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> use it in prod? I think that’s the wrong goal. Langchain, with its kitchen-sink approach is great for newbies playing around with language models, to get a feel for the different things possible. The uniform interfaces make it very easy to snap together pieces and try things out (iff you don’t care to understand what’s happening under the hood). Once you know exactly what you need (which might be 10% of Langchain’s…
Any examples? How can I see the exact interactions behind the scenes that it's performing in order to DIY? Setting verbose to true doesn't seem to show everything
still not sure of the value of the langchain abstraction. does anyone use it in prod?
Where I do find it useful is the many tools it saves me from having to build from scratch. For example I use a page scraper and an embedding service with retries are two things I use it for with the bot I built for my companies slack and discord. In theory I could see using it more in my project eventually. https://github.com/ShelbyJenkins/shelby-as-a-service