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Enabling LLM-Powered Applications with Harrison Chase of LangChain

Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

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How LingChain Influenced the Design of the API

I think a lot of the design was really strongly influenced by my time at Kencho. And I don't think LingChain lives up to the same standards that Kencho had internally to be honest. The retriever interface is kind of just the inputs, a single string and the output is a list of documents. It's made it incredibly easy to add all different types of retrievers from vector stores to like hosted retriever services because it is so simple.

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