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Nanobanana
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Nanobanana, 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
- Repeating the same task in a chat randomly yields refusals, and it argues instead of fixing mistakes2026-02-26
- Repeatedly fails to produce accurate diagrams: wrong lanes, car directions, arrows, and numbering2025-11-20
- Prompts keep getting rejected for violating rules, making the tool unusable2025-11-20
- Ignores precise instructions, forcing users to repeat and shout prompts to get basic edits2025-11-14
- Needed three prompts; edits ignored eyeline change until a rephrase, often unusable2025-10-29
- Cannot tweak a requested change; model returns same image repeatedly2025-09-11