[techwizrd]

I agree that it's a little silly, but I mostly use it to abstract over BYO LLMs and extract information from documents. It's nice to be able to quickly prototype something and swap out the underlying language model than set up a whole pipeline with Apache Tika, ETL, etc. Once the idea is feasible, then sure.

That said, langchain is really inefficient and I often find I can re-implement the pieces I need much faster than dealing with langchain's bugs and performance issues.

[ibains]

That’s assuming you’re not using low-code. There are inbuilt connectors to read data, transform data, read/write to pinecone, make api calls to LLMs. It is much faster to prototype with Prophecy.io