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AI · April 25, 2023

I made PromptWatch – LangChain tracing on steroids

As I was building my first few chains, I noticed how difficult it was to understand what was going on, why GPT was responding the way it was, and how I could improve it. Tinkering with my prompts was so tedious - I had to either update the prompt template and rerun the whole chain, or grab the actual prompt, take it to OpenAI playground, tweak it there, and then make a template out of it again. That's why I decided to build something better! PromptWatch allows you to tune your prompt templates in the browser in a format appropriate for LangChain, decoupling template from parameters data. It…

I made PromptWatch – LangChain tracing on steroids launched on April 25, 2023 with 10 votes, #1,716 of 4,853 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

In plain words

PromptWatch is a tracing and debugging tool for LangChain applications that lets developers tune prompt templates directly in the browser without rerunning entire chains. It decouples templates from parameters, tracks session history and costs by project, and maintains version control for templates. Built to solve the friction of iterating on prompts during chain development, it is free to use.

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In the maker’s words, at launch

As I was building my first few chains, I noticed how difficult it was to understand what was going on, why GPT was responding the way it was, and how I could improve it. Tinkering with my prompts was so tedious - I had to either update the prompt template and rerun the whole chain, or grab the actual prompt, take it…

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