Matt, here’s a suggestion- see if it is possible to have a live chat with the author, that would really be interesting. Great video as always, will try out fabric today! 👍
It’s a great tool. I built a web interface for it & built an aggregator website utilising it as well. I use it to summarise blogs/channels and generate links on specific topics so I can see if it’s worth reading the original article/video Main catch with the YT is the query limit with the API
I started using it recently. I use to to output markdown to my Obsidian vault. I created special version of save that also calls fabric to create the front-matter tags for it so my vault can auto connect related content
I started writing my own Python tools to do this, including downloading and concat'ing multiple transcripts for upload to chatbots for discussion. So cool to stumble across your channel!
I am very interested in FABRIC, and I will probably get into a serious use of it. I think it would be very useful if you create a video taking one or two of the patterns that may not be configured to your exact use case and demonstrate how you would modify them for your use case. This type of use case from an experienced Generative AI Aficionado can be very helpful for more novice users. Thanks for all your videos. I watched a lot of them and I will watch a lot more.
Great video. Learned some very useful tidbits here as a newbie to the use of the command line, fabric itself and leveraging AI for everyday tasks. I have been using it in conjunction with Obsidian. Helping to extract and summarize youtube videos on subjects I am digging into. Then being able to connect and link ideas in obsidian from these summaries.
YES! It's all about the prompts. The confusion over fabric, comes from how they bury the lead with the framework and tools they've built, which is cool but I'm not a RU-vidr, I don't work in Cyber security, I'm not a Mac user, I'm not a Christian, and I don't play DnD. I just need to know how to write good prompts.
I would like to access fabric from a CMD or powershell under windows. To run fabric you have to use wsl under windows. It would be great if you could address this topic in one of your upcoming videos!
Hi Matt, one nice thing to do at the end when you take you favorite drink, expose a scrolled window at the side to show all the code you've written during that video. Sounds good?
It's funny; I was examining Fabric with a friend on Tuesday, and my takeaway was, "The tool itself may not be the greatest, but the value truly lies in these prompts."
First youtuber I've seen recommned fish, I love it. I'd just like if more documentation took it into account as setting env variable etc it a bit different.
I'm baffled at the praise Fabric is getting tbh; They seem to have spent more time on buzzwords like 'fabric,' 'loom' and 'weave' than they have actual functionality. The directory separator in the "save" script is a hard-coded forward slash... At the end of the day it seems like little more than a very limited-use prompts library, especially compared to something like Langchain. Perhaps I'm missing something, but after trying it a few times, I just cannot find a use-case that isn't better served by more established, more flexible, and more professionally-written tools. The "extract wisdom" and youtube use-case seems to be getting a good majority of the attention. Langchain's summary chain, rag-driven chat, and a prompt for extracting ideas work together to provide a much better solution for that use-case.
I use the RU-vid one a lot. The time saved is incredible when you can quickly see if a 20 min video is worth watching or get the key points from an instructional video. Yes, extract wisdom gets a lot of praise but how about analyze personality? Last night I took 3 1 hour videos from our major political parties here in the UK and fed them in. Amusingly, I ended up having to use a dolphin fine tune model as the base llama3 was so vicious and biased that it was like a RU-vid comments section. But after I did that, it gave some really interesting and useful analysis of the lying, corrupt liars. It's a collection of good, effective prompts in a tool with a nice way to get a YT transcript as well.
@@technovangelist langchain is not unrelated at all. Fabric wants to (and fails miserably at) chain outputs from one prompt to the next. Langchain does that. It exposes tons of underlying pieces for all kinds of llm tools for rag, chat, prompting, etc etc… saying it’s “not that great” considering its use and ubiquity seems as close to objectively incorrect as an opinion can get. The prompts are just fine in Fabric. But that’s the main attraction there, and I think there are better ways to keep track of your prompts.
@@ts757arse exactly. The RU-vid one is great. But there are much better and easier ways to skin that cat. You’ll notice all the demos and promos for fabric lean on this one use case pretty heavily, and it’s just plain RAG, simple as you can get.
I’ve created a prompt library tailored to my workflow since I’m a civil engineer and landscape architect, which are niche fields. Many AI tools are designed for general use, not specifically for those of us who build and maintain our infrastructure-true “civil” engineering, from the word “civilization,” the mother of all engineering and landscape architecture, henceforth. While there are many interesting tools out there, they often don’t provide practical help for my work. I’m also developing niche software to better support my profession since no one in the tech field understands anything more than virtual reality. There are too many outsiders to the profession that miss the mark when developing software so I guess I am going to have to step up to the plate.
That would be amazing to release something like that. I have spoken with folks on the engineering side of construction industry doing similar things and something similar would have been immensely useful for my wife who is also an architect, though she focused on the programming aspects for science buildings for colleges and universities.
Any suggested resources to learn more about interacting with youtube API or APIs in general? (looking to learn more about what you did in "AI is always better when you.. " section).
When i installed it, and tried to run the command "fabric", it stated, that there is no such command, although there is a directory, and after i finished the pipx command, it clearly said, that these "apps" were installed. So i used "pipx ensure path", closed the terminal, logged new in, but it still couldnt run fabric as a command
@technovangelist Thank you for the video. I have Ollama installed on Windows 11 system. Got Fabric installed, put API for Google/YT in setup. Cool to get the video summary, but when I pipe to "extract wisdom" I get unrecognized command.
Amazing channel, Matt - full of wisdom. And it's free...how'd that happen? Where the heck i$ your tip jar? I would like to motivate you to make more great un$ponsored honest content. I am just learning AI for my law profession and am super motivated and excited to learn from brilliant minds as yours.
thanks so much for the comment. I have been reluctant to add stuff like that. But after enough folks asked, I created a patreon at patreon.com/technovangelist and some folks do some tip thing on my streams, though i don't know how that works. But don't feel obligated. I do this because its fun. motivation is nice though....
Your slow autofocus is making me crazy. I cannot ignore it, and it makes me miss points in your presentation. You could edit them out in Premiere Pro or your video editing software. But it feels like you are doing the presentation all in one take with someone zooming in and out to emphasize points. Zoom In. "Pay attention. This is really important". Zoom out. "This is general material or intro to a demo". Or maybe your are using a focus blur transition between takes. Either way, it gets in the way of my absorbing the content. Your content is great, and I do not want to miss a single word. That is why I am complaining. Hopefully you will take my comment in the spirit in which it is intended, to help you to help me to absorb your content. Thanks for listening.
To me, fabric is the same as langchain - unnecessary extra man-in-the-middle you don't need. You can do better, cleaner and simpler dealing with LLM directly
Without sleek modern and sexy UI this will never get enough traction. It's too cumbersome to use and install for almost anyone who is not very tech savy
Ugh. Ollama wasn’t anywhere near first. I know. I helped create Ollama. We made it because we didn’t like any of the long list of tools in the market ahead of us. A ui is not needed for this. But as stated in the video, there are plenty of UIs out there that I hope will leverage these prompts.
Great. I would rather get that time back rather than waste it typing very similar long text every time. Everyone can recreate llamacpp with a bit of time. its just text. Do that each time while you are at it.
I've wasted a lot of time with all this nonsense. Let's have a look at this again in 10.000 years or so when it can write the snake game without 20 errors.
Sounds like you are hoping for the ai to do the job for you rather than help you get the job done. You will be disappointed for a long time to come because that isn’t going to happen for a while. But the folks that use it effectively will pass you by while you wait.
