Pulumi

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2019–2024), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Pulumi, 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 7 complaints

Hard to tell which code runs before versus after deployment, making bugs hard to locate2024-02-10
Manually modifying state is painful, with hardships like those in Terraform2023-06-13
Hard to get working with TypeScript, forcing awkward setup losing CLI access2023-04-13
Constantly fighting async vs Input vs apply when using values, breaking down on complex cases2022-01-03
Docs missing sections, forcing trial and error to provision an EC2 root volume2021-04-15
Config written as code must be run to see what it does, and needs a debugger to understand2020-04-14
Couldn't make progress because documentation was lacking in alpha2019-11-16