It was the first pass at solving the common problems when building with LLMs. People jumped on it because it was trendy and popular.
But it quickly became obvious that LangChain would be better named LangSpaghetti.
That’s nothing against the authors. What are the chances the first attempt at solving a problem is successful? They should be commended for shipping quickly and raising money on top of it to keep iterating.
The mistake of LangChain is that they doubled down on the bad abstraction. They should have been iterating by exploring different approaches to solving the problem, not by adding even more complexity to their first attempt.
But it quickly became obvious that LangChain would be better named LangSpaghetti.
That’s nothing against the authors. What are the chances the first attempt at solving a problem is successful? They should be commended for shipping quickly and raising money on top of it to keep iterating.
The mistake of LangChain is that they doubled down on the bad abstraction. They should have been iterating by exploring different approaches to solving the problem, not by adding even more complexity to their first attempt.