IBM Watson

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with IBM Watson, 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 5 complaints

Watson was technically unusable for the commenter when they tried it2026-07-14
Documentation was devoid of technical information, so the user couldn't learn how to use it2025-12-08
Beyond trivial examples, implementing a chatbot was nearly impossible; documentation was missing2022-11-23
Confusing widgets for adding classes and negatives; unclear what to put in them2018-03-20
Hard to tell what Watson actually is or does2015-11-06