The other comments have sufficient justification (confusing documentation, technical debt, easier to just roll-your-own) for their dislike of LangChain. This has been the case for nearly every HN thread about LangChain. It is not a vast anti-LangChain conspiracy.
I personally used it in an alpha-quality production app too and it was fine at first, but I found out after a month of hacking, it didn't work for the business needs for the reasons stated above.
Said free tooling just increases lock-in which is not ideal for any complex software project.
I personally used it in an alpha-quality production app too and it was fine at first, but I found out after a month of hacking, it didn't work for the business needs for the reasons stated above.
Said free tooling just increases lock-in which is not ideal for any complex software project.