[factormeta]

From a developer with extensive database ETL experience, is it still necceary to learn or use LangChain? Would it be just easier to load directly to vector db?

[lgas]

It was never necessary to use it. It's handy for exploratory work and studying thee patterns of how they glued stuff together behind the scenes, but once you know what you want to build it's another bloated abstraction that's just in the way.

[mritchie712]

> bloated abstraction that's just in the way

I agree with this, but would argue it's not even useful for exploratory work. Most of it's function can be generated in a single prompt for your use case.

[gr3ml1n]

LangChain was the first big attempt at a cohesive LLM application framework. As a result, it's terrible. If someone is seriously suggesting using it, they aren't keeping up.

[Uehreka]

So what are the people who are “keeping up” using? No one ITT is saying what the thing that replaced LangChain is.