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Software development
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2013–2023), in 7 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 Software development, 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
- Verification tools are almost universally terrible and incomprehensible to use2020-04-12
- Programming is needlessly hard to use; writing code as text is outdated and difficult2016-04-07
- Days lost fighting tools that crash, misbehave or give unhelpful SSL errors2014-12-01
- Supposedly perfect development systems end up horribly unusable in practice2014-02-13
- Software development is unnecessarily complex and unintuitive, and it is easy to introduce bugs2013-07-30