LangChain Academy New Course: Introduction to LangSmith

LangChain · 1m · transcribed 16d ago

Section Insights

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Introduction to Lang Smith Course

What is the new course being announced?

The latest course is an introduction to Lang Smith, aimed at simplifying the building of LLM applications.

The course focuses on easing the development of LLM applications.
Quality and performance understanding are key challenges for developers.
Lang Smith is introduced as a solution to these challenges.

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Purpose of Lang Smith

How does Lang Smith help developers?

Lang Smith is a platform designed to help developers build, test, and monitor their LLM applications effectively.

Lang Smith provides tools for understanding application behavior.
It is beneficial for developers using any framework, not just Lang Chain.
The platform is accessible for free to get started.

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Course Structure and Learning Outcomes

What will the course cover?

The course will guide users through using Lang Smith, building a basic RAG application, and employing prompt engineering tools.

Participants will learn to iterate quickly using Lang Smith's tools.
The course includes performance testing of LLM applications.
Observability in production will be a key focus.

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Building Reliable LLM Applications

What skills will participants gain from the course?

By the end of the course, participants will be equipped to build reliable, production-ready LLM applications using Lang Smith.

The course aims to support developers from prototype to production.
Skills gained will enhance the reliability of LLM applications.
Participants will learn best practices for evaluating LLM performance.

Transcript

0:00 I'm excited to announce the release of our latest Lang chain Academy course introduction to Lang Smith at Lang chain we aim to make it as easy as possible to build llm applications as we've worked alongside developers we've seen that one of the biggest challenges when building LM applications is quality and specifically it's understanding how your LM app will perform in different scenarios and why that's where Lang Smith comes in it's a powerful platform we've developed to help you build test

0:31 and monitor your llm application Lang Smith equips you with the tools to understand your application Behavior at every stage of development whether you're using a lang chain framework or not Langs Smith has you covered and it's free to get started in this course we'll take you step by step through using lsmith to get the most out of the platform we'll build a basic rag application and use Langs Smith's prompt engineering tools to iterate quickly we'll test the app's

0:59 performance using best practices to evaluate llm applications and finally we'll observe how our app is doing in production using lsmith observability by the end you'll have the skills needed to leverage lsmith for building more reliable production ready llm applications I'm excited for you to take this course and hope lsmith can support you in your development Journey from prototype to production

Summary

The announcement introduces the new course on Lang Smith, a platform designed to assist developers in building, testing, and monitoring large language model (LLM) applications. The course aims to enhance understanding of application performance and reliability, guiding users through practical steps to leverage Lang Smith effectively.

- Lang Smith simplifies the development of LLM applications by addressing quality and performance challenges.
- The platform provides tools for testing and monitoring applications throughout the development process.
- The course includes step-by-step guidance on building a basic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) application.
- Users will learn to utilize Lang Smith's prompt engineering tools for rapid iteration.
- Best practices for evaluating LLM application performance will be covered.
- The course will demonstrate how to monitor application performance in production using Lang Smith's observability features.
- Participants will gain skills to create reliable, production-ready LLM applications.
- The course is free to start, making it accessible for developers at all levels.