Lombok

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Lombok, 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

Annotation hides the constructor, making the code harder to understand2026-10-19
IDE can't reliably find all uses of code generated by Lombok2019-11-17
@Builder doesn't work in IntelliJ, so Eclipse and IntelliJ developers see different code2019-11-16
Reordering fields silently changes constructor parameter order, and usages can't be found by clicking2015-11-26