Google AI Studio

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Google AI Studio, 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 9 complaints

Confusing interface; user doesn't understand where AI Studio fits2026-09-30
Took minutes to find API key; unclear where to find logs2026-08-14
Search only matches conversation titles, not their contents; Ctrl+F unreliable2026-05-10
Getting an API key takes many redirects, project, naming and billing steps2025-12-24
UI bugs make the mobile version really difficult to use2025-11-21
Text chats stored in a proprietary format that can't be easily opened locally2025-11-18
Scrolling is a nightmare and got worse in a recent update2025-09-25
Becomes borderline unusable in long conversations, likely from a memory leak2025-05-15
Can't save the system prompt as a default, must re-enter it2025-04-30