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What Happened to LangChain?


I was using it 6 months ago and was nice to get things easily up and running for prototyping with minimal python knowledge.

Now they seem to have their own language based on UNIX pipes? I don't know what that is.

They have a who hirarchy of products that I vaugly understand but what happened to the simple, get things running side? All of my previous code seems broken in ways I don't understand.

  👤 verdverm Accepted Answer ✓
This is what happens when you make a simple library and then raise a bunch of money at peak hype. There wasn't really a valid business path but now they have to find some way to make good for their investors.

If I'm being honest, LangChain seemed like it created more restrictions than it made my life easier. I found it far more flexible to write the few lines of code myself. Most people are consuming the APIs. The advanced cases get into modifying model logits and such, but that requires you run the model yourself.

👤 1tushr
I was thinking of learning about LangChain. Is it not good anymore?