Fabric by Daniel Miessler
Developer tool in AI tools
People recommend it for giving AI tools project context and for making development and workflow tasks easier, and it is free. Critics call it rushed, half-baked and not ready for production.
People recommend it for giving AI tools project context and for making development and workflow tasks easier, and it is free. Critics call it rushed, half-baked and not ready for production.
20 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 8
- approval share
- 60%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Eases development and workflow management
“The subjectively best API for development (in my opinion) is Fabric”
Comment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3” “it makes things so much easier to manage than bash or make”
Comment from 12 Dec 2025 in “Using Python for Scripting” Gives AI tools project context
“Fabric indexes the repo locally and gives Claude Code the relevant context up front.”
Comment from 6 Jul 2026 in “Claude has the worst pricing – but people want it” “to a lesser extent, Fabric, changed the way I use AI”
Comment from 21 Mar 2026 in “Agentic AI Infrastructure for magnifying HUMAN capabilities”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Rushed, buggy and not production-ready
“It's terrible not just because it's a rushed buggy pile of garbage”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas” “is said to be crazy to pick for production at this stage”
Comment from 3 Apr 2026 in “Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer” “Microsoft Fabric which is even less baked”
Comment from 3 Apr 2026 in “Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer” - Comment from 3 Apr 2026 in “Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer”
What people said
19 of the 20 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Sounds pretty cool, do you have the link to the github so we could take a look ?”
“The powerbi dashboard that ships w/ fabric usage credits is the only place I have to know how much my work costs”
“They certainly could have done it with our existing systems with SmartSheet, Microsoft Fabric and/or Power Apps with SharePoint for document storage.”
“less capable as one is limited by the official extension points”
“The subjectively best API for development (in my opinion) is Fabric”
“Fabric indexes the repo locally and gives Claude Code the relevant context up front.”
“But it's useful enough for me right now.”
“Fabric is the one place for all your data!”
“Microsoft Fabric which is even less baked”
“that back then was really half-baked”
“is said to be crazy to pick for production at this stage”
“widely used and well-tested”
“to a lesser extent, Fabric, changed the way I use AI”
“yet Fabric isn't one of them; who knows, maybe it will become the sixth?”
“The incompatibility between Forge, NeoForge, Fabric, etc. is terrible”
“it makes things so much easier to manage than bash or make”
“It's terrible not just because it's a rushed buggy pile of garbage”
“Looks like too many boxes needed for simple things.”
“solving a lot of the problems with the fully homegrown without locking you into the "Infrastructure as(manually edited) Data" paradigm”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.