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Vibe coded apps
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 12 threads.
People raised many different problems with Vibe coded apps, 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 12 complaints
- Redundant buttons, inactive buttons never shown disabled, and blocking UI from sequential work2026-09-28
- Code flow is impossible to follow, with many useless CLI options2026-09-23
- Clicking opens multiple duplicate list windows that must be closed manually2026-08-24
- Too much redundant text and jargon makes it hard to understand at a glance2026-07-22
- Cards look like indistinct blobs because the board is zoomed too far out2026-06-15
- Bluetooth connection to the phone now unreliable, requiring toggling Bluetooth off and on each time2026-04-23
- Tiny, hard-to-read console-style font and crammed text on generated pages2026-04-22
- Text is too small and the sites are too dark to read2026-03-20
- Changes don't take effect because the image tag is hardcoded and docs omit needed steps2026-02-21
- Apps that do the same thing with awful UI and UX2026-02-16
- Giant fonts and line spacing make the article borderline illegible on a phone2026-02-04
- Some fields didn't work and the site couldn't process the order2025-10-03