[tovej]

This is one of the worst takes I've ever heard.

There's a reason industries have standards. If you replace established libraries with vibecoded alternatives you will have:

- less documentation

- less tested code

- no guarantees it's doing the right thing

- a dice roll for whether it works this time on this project

- a bad time in general

[botusaurus]

langchain is stuck in innovator dilemma - it was built for gpt 3.5, or 4, it needs a different design for todays models, but cant evolve because of existing users and backward compatibility

just like jQuery still exists and is being actively developed

[esafak]

Or maybe it was poorly designed from the start, for there were no precedents.