Harrison Chase says developers should guide agent planning explicitly in code
Harrison Chase · Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph · Sep 27, 2024 · at 1:08:52
Harrison Chase, creator of LangChain and LangGraph, discusses cognitive agent architectures and orchestration frameworks.
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“Sometimes I say that like the LLMs aren't [4137] Great at planning yet. [4138] So we can help them plan by telling them how to plan and code. [4140] Cause that's very explicit and that's a good way of communicating how they should plan and stuff like that.”
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