Enabling LLM-Powered Applications with Harrison Chase of LangChain

On this episode, we’re joined by Harrison Chase, Co-Founder and CEO of LangChain. Harrison and his team at LangChain are on a mission to make the process of creating applications powered by LLMs as easy as possible.

We discuss:
- What LangChain is and examples of how it works.
- Why LangChain has gained so much attention.
- When LangChain started and what sparked its growth.
- Harrison’s approach to community-building around LangChain.
- Real-world use cases for LangChain.
- What parts of LangChain Harrison is proud of and which parts can be improved.
- Details around evaluating effectiveness in the ML space.
- Harrison's opinion on fine-tuning LLMs.
- The importance of detailed prompt engineering.
- Predictions for the future of LLM providers.

⏳ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:10 What is LangChain?
5:42 Reasons for LangChain's attention
11:18 LangChain's start and growth catalyst
17:45 Community-building for LangChain
23:31 Real-world use cases
30:17 LangChain's pride and improvements
32:37 ML space evaluation effectiveness details
39:05 Fine-tuning LLMs
52:43 Prompt engineering's crucial importance
57:08 LLM providers' future predictions

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[RafiDude]

Awesome interview! One of the best available with Harrison Chase. There are so many ideas in this interview that can be a fodder to multiple startups.

[rahularyansharma]

Is this interview after open ai functions launched or before that ?

[wryltxw]

What needs to get done to make it ready for production? Trying to understand the issues more.

[ScissorN]

Theres no field that grows as fast ad Tech .. ive been in engineering for 12years and we still use tools that where created in stone ages 🥹