This echoes our experience with LangChain, although we have abandoned it before putting it into production. We found out that for simple use cases it's too complex (as mentioned in the blog), and for complex use cases it's too difficult to adapt. We were not able to identify what is the sweet spot when it is worth it to use it. We felt like we can easily code ourselves most of its functionality very quickly and in a way that fits our requirements.
i've never seen a HN thread where everybody just unanimously agrees and wow I definitely will not be recommending Langchain or using it personally after reading through all the horror stories.
seems like another case of creating busysoftware. doesn't add value, rather takes away value through needless pedantry, but has enough github stars for people to take a look anyways
