Keras

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2018–2023), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Keras, 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 4 complaints

Hard to use without calling the backend directly for optimisation and unsupported features2023-07-11
Opinionated high-level model gets in the way when customizing beyond simple cases2021-12-14
Keras feels more verbose and complicated than early Torch, needing code snippets2019-10-10
Large API is hard to discover; many magic strings and options are hard to grasp2018-06-28