Hacking LangChain for fun and profit

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

  • 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

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

  • 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 :-(

  • 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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