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by hwchase17 11mo ago
Hi HN! It’s been three years since we launched LangChain as an open source package. Since then, we’ve evolved into a broader platform for agent engineering (LangGraph, LangSmith). Our tools now power AI teams like Replit, Clay, Harvey, Vant
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by hwchase17 1y ago
Author here! Main takeaways (which I'd love feedback on) are: There are series of agents recently (claude code, manus, deep research) which execute tasks over longer time horizons particular well At the core of it, it's just an LL
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by hwchase17 1y ago
that was a quote from anthropic's blog (not us saying it)... our Ghost theme does not make it super apparent what is a quote :/
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by hwchase17 2y ago
lol taken completely out of context I was actually arguing *for* MCP in this blog But I don't think its good for all use cases! hence the quote
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by hwchase17 2y ago
we're working on a way to make these conditional flows less tedious :) some good devX improvements coming soon!
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Show HN: Who's the AI?(whostheai.com)
1 points by hwchase17 2y ago|1 comments
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What Is an Agent?(blog.langchain.dev)
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by hwchase17 2y ago
Excited to launch this! Happy to answer any questions HN community might have
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by hwchase17 2y ago
what did it look like though? I'm really keen to hear what the common patterns you saw emerging were
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by hwchase17 2y ago
> My advice is to focus less on the “chaining” aspect and more on the “provider agnostic” part a lot of our effort recently has been going into standardizing model wrappers, including for tool calling, images etc. this will continue to b
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by hwchase17 2y ago
would love any feedback if you do!
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by hwchase17 2y ago
> Different agents for different situations... totally agree. we've opted for keeping langgraph very low level and not adding these higher level abstractions. we do have examples for them in the notebooks, but havent moved them into
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by hwchase17 2y ago
totally agree on not hiding prompts, and have tried to stop doing that as much as possible in LangChain and are not doing that at all in LangGraph thanks for the thoughts, appreciate it
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by hwchase17 2y ago
ooc, what was the "same single solution"
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by hwchase17 2y ago
sorry to hear that, totally understand feeling burnt ooc - do you think theres anything we could do to change that? that is one of the biggest things we are wrestling with. (aside from completely distancing from langchain project)
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by hwchase17 2y ago
Hi HN, Harrison (CEO/co-founder of LangChain) here, wanted to chime in briefly I appreciate Fabian and the Octomind team sharing their experience in a level-headed and precise way. I don't think this is trying to be click-baity at
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by hwchase17 3y ago
Cofounder of LangChain here! LangSmith is designed to be independent of LangChain. Some resources: tracing without LangChain: https://github.com/langchain-ai/langsmith-cookbook/blob/main... Docs on tracing wi
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by hwchase17 3y ago
hi all - Harrison (co-founder) of LangChain here We released this as a way to make it easier to get started with LLM applications. Specifically, we've heard that when people were using chains/agents they often wanted to see what e
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by hwchase17 3y ago
LangChain co-founder here. There's lots of good feedback here (that also resonates with previous feedback) that we're working hard to address. On some key points: - We genuinely appreciate all the thoughtful criticism and feedback
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by hwchase17 4y ago
working on it as we speak!
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LangChain TypeScript Support(twitter.com)
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Show HN: LangChain Tracing(langchain.readthedocs.io)
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Build a GitHub Support Bot with GPT3, LangChain, and Python(dagster.io)
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