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Tools are clunky and unintuitive to use

Dev tooling6 posts from 6 people5d active+33 posts in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (rising)

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Posts per day6 posts, Sep 1 to Sep 25

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modern UI is terrible if it aint broke dont fix itplease keep the original vscode ui the modern ui is terrible thanks! and fire whoever who came up with the new UI and please make sure a UX designer is involved in all designs for vscode moving forward not a vibe-codermicrosoft/vscodeJudimaxSep 24yesterday
What's the biggest bonehead mistake you have every made in IT support?...their environment from Barracuda backups, which were painfully slow to restore and unreliable. I had to do multiple restores on the exchange server to get it to work. A full week of recovery, followed by another two weeks fixing lingering issues-all free of charge.. The two guys...r/sysadminu/Special_Bear_9479Sep 24yesterday
...I find it so hard to use because it is fundamentally constrained as a TUI. It is buggy, clunky and slow. It is sooo slow. One example of what is particularly bad with it: tool calls and progress. Codex UI does it so much better. The way in which CC waits for a task to complete...Hacker News commentssimianwordsSep 205 days ago
Confusing interfaceSo much time spent trying to figure it out.Slack App Store reviewsSep 178 days ago
Rippling MDM - A Nightmare Nobody Else Should Go Through...ourselves and 2. were buried three menus deep 3. needlessly complex, making help desk a nightmare.. This, along with a host of other issues, was largely ignored by Rippling. Our emails would be brushed aside until our "integration meetings" in which them telling us that things...r/sysadminu/TechnoAlchemistSep 43 weeks ago
ENH: Add DataFrame.headtail() to show first and last N rows together...view, but it changes global display state rather than returning a usable object, and doesn't work well outside of print/repr. ### Additional Context ## Additional Context This would mainly be a display/inspection convenience method, similar in spirit to...pandas-dev/pandasmosesamwomaSep 13 weeks ago

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Slack1
Claude Code1
Codex1
VS Code1
pandas1
About this problem

Evidence

6 posts from 6 people in 5 places, about 2 a week over 24 days. Mostly on r/sysadmin, Slack App Store reviews, Hacker News comments. Tools named alongside: Slack, Claude Code, Codex, VS Code.

Frustration Frustration 3 of 3· Seen on GitHub issues, Reddit, App Store reviews, Hacker News

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Posts that state a pain and match the "ux" rule. First post Sep 1, 2026, latest Sep 24, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method

History

  • 2026-09-25 Momentum: steady to rising
  • 2026-09-25 Added: Tools are clunky and unintuitive to use (3 posts)

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