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Natural language programming
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2008–2024), in 8 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Natural language programming, 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
- Default scroll direction is inverted from what long-time users expect, forcing them to change it on every machine2024-04-29
- Syntax is so bad it hinders experienced programmers, and misleads beginners who expect natural language2024-04-21
- People can't use natural language interfaces because they struggle to express their thoughts2024-01-29
- A single finger tap often registers as multiple clicks on mobile2024-01-12
- Lean tutorial text is cut off and instructions refer to content not visible on screen2020-04-08
- Instructions refer to lemma hidden off-screen, can't see text and lemma together2020-04-08
- Plain-English requests give ambiguous results, like undo-commit returning a destructive git reset2019-05-23
- Generic name makes the project hard to find when searching for it2012-03-15
- Typing commands is inconvenient, and uncertain matching makes users avoid it2008-12-02