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Hacking LangChain for fun and profit

by oldgun on 7/10/23, 5:37 PM with 24 comments

• by collinc777 on 7/11/23, 10:30 PM

  There's a pretty steep learning curve to langchain. I recommend avoiding it if you don't need higher level of abstractions.

• by yujian on 7/11/23, 9:59 PM

  Great conceptual explanation of the different primitives in LangChain. Some possible inspiration for your upcoming piece involving vector stores with LangChain - https://milvus.io/blog/conversational-memory-in-langchain.md

• by fallingmeat on 7/11/23, 10:05 PM

  still not sure of the value of the langchain abstraction. does anyone use it in prod?

• by flakiness on 7/12/23, 3:33 AM

  Although LangChain might not be great as a library/framework, it still could be a great starting point to learn about programming pattern for prompt/actor programming.

  They used to have a "concepts" page that links to relevant papers but it seems that the page is gone from the doc for some reason :-(

• by tehsauce on 7/11/23, 10:57 PM

  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!