Harrison Chase admits LangChain's memory service lacked product-market fit
Harrison Chase · Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph · Sep 27, 2024 · at 1:12:12
Harrison Chase, CEO and co-founder of LangChain, evaluates the market adoption of LangChain's early memory services.
0:00 / 0:03exact quote · 3.1s
▶ Watch the full episode on YouTube → 720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“The memory service we launched, I don't think really found product market fit.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Harrison Chase
Chase: Nobody in the AI industry knows how to properly solve memory.
“I don't think anyone knows how to deal with memory, and so I think all these different approaches are...”
Harrison Chase says coding AI agents are not yet a proven success
“There's a bunch of people doing coding stuff.
We've already talked about that.
I think that's a little bit, I wouldn't say that's a success yet, but there's a lot of excitement and stuff there.”
Harrison Chase says production AI agents rely on three main defaults
“And there's such a long tail of other ones, but in practice, like, when people go to production, they generally have their own tools, or maybe one of those three, maybe some other ones, but, like, very, very few other ones.”
Chase: LangChain and other frameworks lack off-the-shelf Reflexion implementations
“I don't think we have like an off the shelf kind of like implementation of reflection and kind of like the general sense. I think the concepts like absolutely we see used in different kind of like specific cognitive architectures, but I don't think we have one…”