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Coding agents
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 6 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 Coding agents, 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 6 complaints
- Agent ignores instructions to answer only yes or no, needing repeated prompting2026-09-09
- Text copying breaks in TUIs with padding, borders, and multiple panes2026-08-29
- Can't tell if an agent is working, stuck, or done, and finding its terminal window is friction2026-05-21
- Juggling two agent contexts at once is very confusing2026-03-31
- Agent ignores existing components and styles, duplicating functionality despite instructions2025-10-12
- Constant fighting with quirks, needing close supervision, sluggish and inconsistent responsiveness2025-03-16