OpenAI API

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2023–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with OpenAI API, 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

Verify Organization button unexpectedly requires third-party biometric ID check via Persona2025-06-10
Fixing one field's output breaks previously working fields, so progress keeps being lost2025-01-27
Developers must write convoluted polling and file handling code to do a simple daily update2024-03-14
Past 4-5 functions it hallucinates parameters and loses focus; JSON schema is verbose2023-12-27