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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 18 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If LangChain was written via VibeCoding then that would explain a lot.

[–] murtaza64@programming.dev -2 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

so what are the sentiments about langchain? I was recently working with it to try to build some automatic PR generation scripts but I didn't have the best experience understanding how to use the library. the documentation has been quite messy, repetitive and disorganized—somehow both verbose and missing key details. but it does the job I wanted it to, namely letting me use an LLM with tool calling and custom tools in a script

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Given the volatility of the space I don't think it could have been doing stuff much better, doubt it's getting out of alpha before the bubble bursts and stuff settles down a bit, if at all.

Automatic pr generation sounds like something that would need a prompt and a ten-line script rather than langchain, but it also seems both questionable and unnecessary.

If someone wants to know an LLM's opinion on what the changes in a branch are meant to accomplish they should be encouraged to ask it themselves, no need to spam the repository.

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 11 hours ago

seems like garbage to me

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 10 hours ago

sounds like you figured out the referenced problem for yourself already