Products · Broad category
AI assistants
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 9 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with AI assistants, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 10 complaints
- AI features are forced on screen constantly and cannot be avoided2025-10-26
- AI buttons are pushed into the interface, wiggling to get clicked, when users never asked for them2025-10-26
- AI features shout for attention with prompts and buttons all over the interface2025-07-06
- Can't find where to download the desktop app on the website2024-11-26
- Apps keep pushing assistant banners the user must repeatedly dismiss2024-08-13
- Couldn't tell where to click to try the assistant2023-11-24
- Hard to tell what the product does; text is too long-winded2023-09-20
- Constantly changing UIs and murky AI interfaces make it hard to learn and master2023-05-04
- Unpredictable reminders make users unsure which device notifies them and when2018-05-08
- Text cannot be brought onto the iPhone screen, so the page is unreadable2015-06-02