Semgrep

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2022–2023), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Semgrep, 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 5 complaints

Documentation is hard to navigate2023-12-10
Searching for the tool leads to a corporate page with a demo button, not usable docs2023-12-10
Documentation is confusing, focusing on rules rather than general semantic search use2023-09-01
The --pattern option is hidden in the docs, hard to discover2022-10-17
Docs and website push CI use, leaving newcomers stuck on how to get started2022-10-17