Just getting the feeling that LangChain is going to end up being considered a kitchen sink solution full of anti patterns so might as well spend time a little lower level while I see which way the winds end up blowing.
Anyway, I’m not surprised. It’s a new market, everyone’s in on it.
LQML: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35956484
Haystack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29501045 or more recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35430188
It’s pretty clear that we are in the phase where everyone is rushing to get a slice of the pie selling dubious thing and people start parroting word soup hoping they actually make sense and fearing they will miss out. That’s indeed what people often and rightfully satirise about the IT industry. That’s the joke phase before things settle.
It might have saved me from having a ridiculous conversation about the cadence of my words, and instead there might have been a higher chance of someone saying something substantive about my assumptions regarding the technology.
But here we are.
You ran into the tech equivalent of poe’s law. You said something that makes perfect sense in your technical sphere, but it read as indistinguishable from parody to an audience unfamiliar with the technologies in question.
React, Supabase, Next, Kafka, Redis
I mean, IMO "LangChain" is kind of a silly name but I feel like there's nothing to see here.
If only there were a clear syllabus for this stuff! There's such an incredible amount to keep up with. The pace is bonkers.