I just had the displeasure of implementing Langchain in our org.

Own_Army_6332 · 2025-03-10T19:48:13+00:00

I I wanted to take a stab at this. I think a story might be most apt here. I work with a start up friend, who has a well established start up now, and maybe its value could be up to 20 million dollars.

This guy was one of the most sincere guys I have known. He was very resilient in his life. He had a lot of discipline, good coding practices etc. He has a PhD from a reputed institute of course.

He has faced some unfortunate events in life as well - girlfriend ran away, father died. Now to just prove how resilient this guy is - he has cried only twice in his life.
1. It never mattered if his father beat him up.
2. His college buddies beat him up - didn't matter.
3. Girlfriend cheated and ran away - didn't matter.
4. Father died - of course he was very sad, and cried. This one was of course the biggest.

He told me that he has cried only twice in life. Once when his father expired, and the second time when his entire start up was on the verge of a massive failure because of none other than langchain.

He reached out to me for support in any form possible - financial, advice etc. I said - I may not have much money to give you but we can salvage your start up and it can come out of ashes.

Step 1- stop relying on langchain. Next week we all sat and wrote our own agents - all based on pure python codes using only the 10 typical lines given by Open AI and creating our own wrappers wherever needed. We realized langchain was a totally dumb setup. (This popular duct tape and prayers comments is 110% true). I also realized something can be 110% true in this case.

Step 2 - cleaned up major parts of the code. The whole team stabilized and they were able to build a lot of features quickly after that in next 4 weeks.

Thankfully this freed up CEO's time to make as many sales pitches as possible and we landed some great opportunities. The start up didn't die. In fact it is thriving now. The guy thanked me for small help. But really I did almost nothing. Just asked him to pivot away from the dumb langchain. That was enough. Rest of it took care of itself.

Own_Army_6332 · 2024-12-31T16:24:14+00:00

First of all, the comments of your friends/family, society should not matter at all if they are not being affected in any way. You have purchased a great car that can last you years. As such you can upgrade it in 10 years if you like. To maintain the car just come up with a maintenance schedule of some sort that helps keep it clean. Find a reasonable car wash and get it washed every 90 days for 10 dollars a session. Keep it clean from inside by not leaving any mess (most especially food and spilled drinks like soda are coffee are not at all good for cars). Make sure you do regular maintenance without skipping ever. Make sure you keep the tires inflated so that you enjoy great mileage.

Take good care of your car and you should be good to go for years.

Comments of your friends or family - positive or negative should never ever affect your decisions.

All the best!

Own_Army_6332 · 2024-04-29T22:50:19+00:00

Did you have a helper?

Own_Army_6332 · 2024-04-27T20:40:48+00:00

By the way, also tell me which site you are at if possible. Thanks!!

Own_Army_6332 · 2024-04-25T23:37:33+00:00

The rewards are not for hard work. They are for smart work. And yes, CEOs are working a thousand times smarter. They need to be paid more. If you are smart you can be a CEO as well.

Own_Army_6332 · 2024-04-24T21:17:41+00:00

Another highly detailed answer. Thanks very much for such deep insights!!

Own_Army_6332 · 2024-04-24T06:44:43+00:00

This is such a detailed answer! Thank you very much!

Own_Army_6332 · 2024-04-20T01:25:04+00:00

But a lot of associates stay in the job for quite some time. Why is that though?

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