[D] Is there anything LangChain can do better than using LLMs directly (either through a website or...

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[D] Is there anything LangChain can do better than using LLMs directly (either through a website or an API), any examples? Why would someone choose to use it?

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I haven't used ChatGPT a lot or any other LLMs, I've been reading about Langchain and its use cases, and I'm having trouble wrapping my head around exactly what it does. From what I understand, its an alternative interface for LLMs, allowing for easy switching between them, and makes some work for specific use cases easier. If I wanted to write an app or script to interact with LLMs and do other tasks, how would LangChain be better than just making API call(s) to an LLM, getting back the result as a string, and doing whatever with it?

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