alt Hacker NewsI am not sure what's the stereotype, but I tried using langchain and realised most of the functionality actually adds more code to use than simply writing my own direct API LLM calls.
Overall I felt like it solves a problem doesn't exist, and I've been happily sending direct API calls for years to LLMs without issues.
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Insanity • yesterday at 11:21 PM
When my company organized an LLM hackathon last year, they pushed for LangChain.. but then instead of building on top of it I ended up creating a more lightweight abstraction for our use-cases.
That was more fun than actually using it.
JSON Structured Output from OpenAI was released a year after the first LangChain release.
I think structured output with schema validation mostly replaces the need for complex prompt frameworks. I do look at the LC source from time to time because they do have good prompts backed into the framework.