LangChain Fundamentals - Building Your First Chain

Explore the fundamentals of LangChain in this 14-minute video tutorial. Learn how to set up your environment, understand the Runnable concept, and work with message formats and ChatModel. Discover why LangChain offers multiple approaches to similar tasks and explore different types of messages. Dive into templates and their combination with LLMs, and get introduced to the Pipe functionality. Follow along as the tutorial guides you through building and running your first chain, concluding with a comprehensive review. Access provided code samples and additional resources to enhance your learning experience with this popular framework for developing complex LLM-powered logic.

- Intro
- Set up Environment
- Introducing Runnable
- Message Format
- ChatModel
- Why are there so many ways to do the same thing?
- Types of Messages
- Introducing Templates
- Combining Templates w/ LLMs
- Introducing Pipe
- Running our chain
- Review