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Lol, yeah the hidden prompts in langchain, and the bloat turned me off it pretty quickly.

Still kinda nice to get something going in less than a day

We think that too! Agency won't have implicit prompts. Or at least without explicit and easy way to override them

I don't mind that they're hidden. I mind that they can't be overriden.

I mind. Langchain is full of shitty, leaky abstractions and shallow function calls. It's a pile of bullshit that somehow managed to raise millions of dollars due to hype. It's everything that's wrong with the state of development in the AI space.

that smells wrong. are you quite sure they cant be overridden? or subclassed?

It looks like the two instances I was thinking of have been fixed:

https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/master/libs/l...

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