I use Langchain for the slack/discord bots I built for my current company.
Langchain is a swiss army knife of tools. And while that can be a good thing, it's mostly a bad thing when you're trying to build something for production. It's also not very flexible... when you're trying to do anything beyond the pre-built stuff, you have to edit the package itself... which means maintaining your own forked version or submitting a PR with your changes. For example, I improved upon the main text splitter Langchain recommends (https://github.com/ShelbyJenkins/langchain/blob/ca14d3028a57...), but I just haven't gotten around to doing everything required for a PR to add the feature (tests, docs, notebooks). So now I have two repos to maintain...
But I also really don't want to take the time to set up a web scraper for a dozen different document sources when Langchain has tools that will work with a minimal amount of tweaking. So, I'm happy to use it for things like that, and happy to recommend it for it's community built pocket-knife tools!
Langchain is a swiss army knife of tools. And while that can be a good thing, it's mostly a bad thing when you're trying to build something for production. It's also not very flexible... when you're trying to do anything beyond the pre-built stuff, you have to edit the package itself... which means maintaining your own forked version or submitting a PR with your changes. For example, I improved upon the main text splitter Langchain recommends (https://github.com/ShelbyJenkins/langchain/blob/ca14d3028a57...), but I just haven't gotten around to doing everything required for a PR to add the feature (tests, docs, notebooks). So now I have two repos to maintain...
But I also really don't want to take the time to set up a web scraper for a dozen different document sources when Langchain has tools that will work with a minimal amount of tweaking. So, I'm happy to use it for things like that, and happy to recommend it for it's community built pocket-knife tools!