Turbulence in the AI honeymoon period
In an extensive thread on Hacker News and Reddit, commenters skewered LangChain. It once again revisits the potential it has as both a product and a business.
All new technologies—and startups—tend to go through the same chain of events.
The cycle starts with the first glimpse of a new technology and an immense hype cycle that follows it. Users begin discovering some initial use cases for it and developers and hobbyists flood the field (along with investment dollars).
Eventually, though, we hit what’…