> Part of the reason I'm hesitant to release said blog post is because I don't want to be that asshole who criticizes open source software that's operating in good faith.
Beyond the "extreme popularity of LangChain is warping the entire AI ecosystem around the workflows to the point of harming it", hasn't it recently become an attractor for substantial amount of investment money? I'm not saying you should be an ass about it, but the ecosystem will keep getting warped further if knowledgeable people won't speak up, and LangChain doesn't seem to be a random small open source project anymore.
I'm not worried about LangChain not taking criticism well, it's more the fanboys who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo and I don't have the free time to deal with annoying "you're just nitpicking because you're jealous" and "it's open source, why don't you just make a PR to fix everything instead of whining?" messages.
This is our worry with building Auto-GPT as well. We have had a number of rather involved discussions on why we don’t use it. I’d love if you published so I can point to it rather than rehashing it every few days.
Beyond the "extreme popularity of LangChain is warping the entire AI ecosystem around the workflows to the point of harming it", hasn't it recently become an attractor for substantial amount of investment money? I'm not saying you should be an ass about it, but the ecosystem will keep getting warped further if knowledgeable people won't speak up, and LangChain doesn't seem to be a random small open source project anymore.
EDIT:
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36647616:
> Remember, this is the project that raised ~$30m from Benchmark and Sequoia.
I think we're past the point of good-faith, small, volunteer-made open source project. If it can take $30M, it can stand some informed criticism too.