LangChain
Framework for developing LLM-powered applications
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LangChain is the most popular framework for building LLM applications with chains, agents, memory, and retrieval. LangSmith adds observability. Controversial for its abstraction complexity.
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“Over-abstracted and changes too fast. For anything beyond demos, calling APIs directly with a thin wrapper is more maintainable.”
“The framework that made simple API calls into 500-line abstractions. LangGraph is better but the damage is done.”
“Despite the criticism, LangChain's ecosystem (LangSmith, LangGraph, templates) is the most complete platform for LLM apps.”