When LangChain Is Enough: How to Build Useful AI...

When LangChain Is Enough: How to Build Useful AI Apps Without Overengineering Most AI apps do not fail because they started too simple. They fail because the team introduced complexity before they had earned the need for it. That is the default mistake in AI engineering right now. Not underengineering. Overengineering too early. A team ships a working prototype with prompt + tools. Then somebody decides that a “real” system needs orchestration. Then someone else proposes explicit state machines,