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Generative AI with LangChain

Generative AI with LangChain - Second Edition

By : Ben Auffarth, Leonid Kuligin
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Generative AI with LangChain

Generative AI with LangChain

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By: Ben Auffarth, Leonid Kuligin

Overview of this book

This second edition tackles the biggest challenge facing companies in AI today: moving from prototypes to production. Fully updated to reflect the latest developments in the LangChain ecosystem, it captures how modern AI systems are developed, deployed, and scaled in enterprise environments. This edition places a strong focus on multi-agent architectures, robust LangGraph workflows, and advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines. You'll explore design patterns for building agentic systems, with practical implementations of multi-agent setups for complex tasks. The book guides you through reasoning techniques such as Tree-of -Thoughts, structured generation, and agent handoffs—complete with error handling examples. Expanded chapters on testing, evaluation, and deployment address the demands of modern LLM applications, showing you how to design secure, compliant AI systems with built-in safeguards and responsible development principles. This edition also expands RAG coverage with guidance on hybrid search, re-ranking, and fact-checking pipelines to enhance output accuracy. Whether you're extending existing workflows or architecting multi-agent systems from scratch, this book provides the technical depth and practical instruction needed to design LLM applications ready for success in production environments.
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Agentic architectures

As we learned in Chapter 5, agents help humans solve tasks. Building an agent involves balancing two elements. On one side, it’s very similar to application development in the sense that you’re combining APIs (including calling foundational models) with production-ready quality. On the other side, you’re helping LLMs think and solve a task.

As we discussed in Chapter 5, agents don’t have a specific algorithm to follow. We give an LLM partial control over the execution flow, but to guide it, we use various tricks that help us as humans to reason, solve tasks, and think clearly. We should not assume that an LLM can magically figure everything out itself; at the current stage, we should guide it by creating reasoning workflows. Let’s recall the ReACT agent we learned about in Chapter 5, an example of a tool-calling pattern:

Figure 6.1: A prebuilt REACT workflow on LangGraph

Figure 6.1: A prebuilt REACT workflow on LangGraph

Let’s look at a few relatively...

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