[losteric]

imo Guidance is valuable, the underlying logic is sufficiently complex that I'm glad I didn't need to DIY it. Same goes for the faster Outlines project from Normal Computing.

LangChain: I found having a framework useful to ramp up people without prior LLM exposure, in an open-ended experimental space. The library covers many usecases and gets people thinking. But honestly their documentation is somewhat lacking for that purpose (stale text, shallow examples). Personally, coming from a search background I was able to DIY semantic RAG in the time it took to figure out how to do the same thing in LangChain.