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Breaches expose customer and company dataSecurityOpenAI15d activeSeen on fru.dev sites, Reddit+22 posts in the last 7 days, 5 the 7 days before (fading)
VS Code users keep filing bugsDev toolingVS Code, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, Codex10d activeSeen on GitHub issues+22 posts in the last 7 days, 4 the 7 days before (fading)
PyTorch users keep filing bugsMLOpsPyTorch, GitHub, Hugging Face, NVIDIA, vLLM, GitHub Actions8d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 3 the 7 days before (fading)
AI agents are unreliable, loop or stall midwayLLM appsModel Context Protocol, Claude, LangChain, Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity8d active+1Seen on GitHub issues, Hacker News, Bluesky, Reddit+11 post in the last 7 days, 5 the 7 days before (fading)
Terraform state drifts from what is really deployedDevOps and infraTerraform, Microsoft Azure, Databricks8d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Reddit+11 post in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (steady)
Claude upgrades break working setupsOutages and changeClaude, GitHub, PyTorch, Claude Code, TensorFlow, LlamaIndex8d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Reddit+11 post in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
Running llama.cpp locally hits memory and speed limitsMLOpsllama.cpp, NVIDIA, Hugging Face, GitHub, Tesla, Unsloth6d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Reddit+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
Grafana users keep filing bugsDevOps and infraGrafana7d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Community forums+11 post in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (steady)
Anthropic upgrades break working setupsOutages and changeAnthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Hugging Face7d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
Deploying and serving models is harder than trainingMLOpsMLflow, GitHub, ChatGPT, Codex, Llama, Ollama7d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Hacker News, Reddit+11 post in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
Jobs and services run out of memoryDevOps and infraPolars, BigQuery, Airbyte, DuckDB, Positron, Segment6d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
Backfills are slow, costly and riskyData engineeringGitHub, Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, SQL Server, Anthropic, OpenAI5d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Reddit+11 post in the last 7 days, 3 the 7 days before (fading)
NVIDIA users keep filing bugsMLOpsNVIDIA, llama.cpp, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, PyTorch, GitHub6d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Stack Overflow+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
Trouble with Prefect flowData engineeringPrefect, GitHub5d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
Terraform users keep filing bugsDevOps and infraTerraform, IBM4d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
Trouble with pandas seriesData engineeringpandas, PostgreSQL, SQLite, GitHub4d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Stack Overflow+11 post in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (steady)
Integrations between tools are brittle glue codeDev toolingHugging Face, Claude, Ollama, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, ChatGPT5d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
Vector search quality and scaling are hard to get rightDatabasesDatabricks, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, AWS, Lambda5d activeSeen on Reddit, GitHub issues, Hacker News+11 post in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
Apache Spark users keep filing bugsData engineeringApache Spark, PostgreSQL, AWS, DuckDB, Databricks4d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Reddit+11 post in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (steady)
llama.cpp users keep filing bugsMLOpsllama.cpp, GitHub, Docker, Qualcomm4d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
ChatGPT upgrades break working setupsOutages and changeChatGPT, Codex, Microsoft Azure, DeepSeek, Azure OpenAI, Model Context Protocol4d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (steady)
LLM token costs are hard to predict and controlCloud and tool costClaude, Codex, Qwen, Anthropic, LlamaIndex, GitHub5d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Hacker News+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
Critical work in Excel is fragile and manualAnalytics and BIExcel, PyPI, Polars4d activeSeen on Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
Apache Airflow jobs fail silently or break oftenData engineeringApache Airflow, GitHub, AWS, Kubernetes4d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Stack Overflow+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
AI tool plans, limits and pricing keep changingAI codingClaude, Claude Code, DeepSeek, Ollama, PostgreSQL, Supabase4d activeSeen on Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
Claude Code runs out of context on real workLLM appsClaude Code, Claude, Codex, Oracle, Cursor, Windsurf4d activeSeen on Hacker News, GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (steady)
Model quality silently gets worse between versionsLLM appsCodex, Cursor, JetBrains, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud4d activeSeen on Hacker News, Bluesky, Reddit+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
DeepSeek users keep filing bugsLLM appsDeepSeek, Hugging Face, Ollama, vLLM, GitHub, LangChain3d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (steady)
Trouble with DuckDB resultsDatabasesDuckDB3d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
Prefect upgrades break working setupsOutages and changePrefect, GitHub, PostgreSQL4d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
Model Context Protocol upgrades break working setupsOutages and changeModel Context Protocol, LlamaIndex, Jupyter3d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
ML experiments are hard to reproduce and trackMLOpsMLflow, GitHub, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Claude, Amazon Bedrock4d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
Trouble with GitHub testDev toolingGitHub, Terraform, LlamaIndex2d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
Microsoft Azure users keep filing bugsDevOps and infraMicrosoft Azure, Grafana, Databricks3d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Reddit+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
Discord outages and slowdowns disrupt workOutages and changeDiscord3d activeSeen on fru.dev sites+11 post in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
PostgreSQL error messages are crypticDev toolingPostgreSQL, Prefect3d activeSeen on Stack Overflow, GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
GPU access, drivers and CUDA versions are painfulMLOpsvLLM, GitHub, OpenAI, Qwen, Hugging Face, NVIDIA3d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Reddit+11 post in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (steady)
Apache Spark upgrades break working setupsOutages and changeApache Spark, Polars, DuckDB, PostgreSQL3d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (steady)
Hard to trace lineage and find trusted data in GitHubData engineeringGitHub, VS Code, Apache Iceberg, Kubernetes3d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (steady)
Claude Code outages and slowdowns disrupt workOutages and changeClaude Code, Anthropic, Claude, Terraform3d activeSeen on fru.dev sites, Hacker News, GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
Kubernetes is too complex to run wellDevOps and infraKubernetes, GitHub, Airbyte, MLflow, Docker3d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Stack Overflow+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
Kubernetes is too complex for most teamsDevOps and infraKubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, dbt3d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Reddit+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
Claude login, SSO or OAuth breaksDev toolingClaude, Claude Code, Ollama, Model Context Protocol, SQLite, Docker3d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
Trouble with DuckDB jsonDatabasesDuckDB, GitHub3d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
GitHub lock-in makes switching costlyCloud and tool costGitHub, Kubernetes, Terraform, npm, Vercel3d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
PyPI users keep filing bugsDev toolingPyPI, PyTorch, GitHub3d activeSeen on GitHub issues+11 post in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (steady)
GitHub vulnerabilities are hard to triage and patchSecurityGitHub, Vercel, Model Context Protocol3d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Hacker News+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
Bad data slips through Polars unnoticedData engineeringPolars2d activeSeen on Reddit, GitHub issuesUnverified+11 post in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (steady)
NVIDIA GPU access and drivers are painfulMLOpsNVIDIA, OpenAI, Hugging Face, PyPI, PyTorch2d activeSeen on Mastodon, GitHub issuesUnverified+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)
GitHub is hard to run and test locallyDev toolingGitHub, VS Code2d activeSeen on Hacker News, GitHub issuesUnverified+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)

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