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AI features in products
Raised as a usability problem by 17 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2022–2026), in 17 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 features in products, 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 14 complaints
- AI output is slop and unusable, and the work it produces is a mess2026-10-25
- Workers must do more work to get the same outcomes using AI2026-09-03
- AI is stuck with voice, chat, and document uploads as its only interfaces2026-06-07
- Companies bolt AI into everything, making apps unusable2026-05-08
- AI tools are hard to reason about, so they frustrate people using them2026-03-14
- Interfaces are designed to tilt users toward AI products through dark patterns2025-12-13
- Requires elaborate workflow setup, many service connections, and weeks of prompt tweaking2025-12-10
- Promised simple conversation, but getting results requires complex setup like system prompts and workflows2025-12-03
- Users must know which AI service and its capabilities before getting value2025-11-28
- Video results get buried below AI summaries, so the user clicks less2025-09-08
- Constant nagging notifications, account and terms hoops, and inbox clutter demand attention2025-06-03
- Integrating AI tools into terminal Vim workflow requires clumsy cutting and pasting2025-02-13
- Pop-ups announcing changes distract from the task the user is trying to finish2025-01-23
- AI turns services into opaque grey boxes that are frustrating when predictions are wrong2022-07-26