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Mlejnsky: LangChain gets 20 million monthly downloads and remains popular
“Well, I have a, I have, I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion, but, like, people keep telling me, ah, Langchain isn't popular, but if you look at its stats, like, it has twenty million downloads per month. How can you have not popular framework when it …”
Vasek Mlejnsky Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 40:11 Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes
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Colvin: Pydantic AI will be first framework implementing OpenTelemetry GenAI attributes
“I suspect Pedantic AI will be the first agent framework that implements those semantic attributes properly, because again, we control Pedantic AI, and we can say this is important for observability, whereas most of the other agent frameworks are not maintained…”
Samuel Colvin Feb 6, 2025 ▶ 35:25 Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
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Fanelli: LangChain and LlamaIndex usage grows on PyPI while CrewAI stays flat
“So if you look at, you know, like chain still growing. These are the last, last six months. Lama index still growing. What I've basically seen is like things that one, obviously these things have a commercial product. So there's like people buying this and sti…”
Alessio Fanelli Jan 1, 2025 ▶ 53:17 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
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Huber: Chroma is the most used project across LangChain and LlamaIndex
“For many years running, Chrome has been the number one used project broadly, but also within communities like LinkChain and Llama Index.”
Jeff Huber Aug 19, 2025 ▶ 8:43 Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
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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…”
Harrison Chase Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 17:05 Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
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Harrison Chase says TypeScript yields better LLM tool-calling performance than JSON
“I saw some paper that used TypeScript notation instead of JSON notation for tool calling and it got a lot better performance.”
Harrison Chase Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 46:42 Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
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