LangChain vs LlamaIndex: Orchestrating LLMs Without Going Mad

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0000

The moment you try to build anything real with a language model, you discover the hard part isn’t the model. It’s everything around it: loading documents, splitting them sensibly, embedding them, stuffing the right context into a prompt, calling a tool, parsing the reply, and doing it all again. You can write this yourself — I did, twice, badly — or you can reach for a framework. The two that dominate are LangChain and LlamaIndex, and the internet will cheerfully tell you to use both, neither, or that one is bloated and the other is a toy. Here’s what I actually think after building with each.

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LangChain vs LlamaIndex: Orchestrating LLMs Without Going Mad