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21 problems matching Hacker News, longest running first. The list grows every day.

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No reliable way to evaluate LLM app qualityLLM appsllama.cpp, NVIDIA, Hugging Face, Qwen, GitHub, MLflow15d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Hacker News, Reddit+33 posts in the last 7 days, 3 the 7 days before (steady)
Service outages and slowdowns disrupt workOutages and changePerplexity, Terraform, Grafana, ElevenLabs, dbt, v013d active+2Seen on Reddit, fru.dev sites, GitHub issues, Hacker News, App Store reviews+1010 posts in the last 7 days, 5 the 7 days before (rising)
Permissions and IAM are confusing and error-proneDevOps and infraGitHub, Prefect, AWS, Apache Kafka, Oracle, n8n13d active+1Seen on GitHub issues, Reddit, Hacker News, Community forums+33 posts in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (rising)
API rate limits and usage caps block real workLLM appsDeepSeek, Ollama, LangChain, Model Context Protocol, OpenRouter, Anthropic12d active+1Seen on GitHub issues, Hacker News, Reddit, Community forums+33 posts in the last 7 days, 3 the 7 days before (steady)
Everyday tools feel slow and laggyDev toolingVS Code, Databricks, Microsoft Teams, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Claude11d active+2Seen on Reddit, GitHub issues, App Store reviews, Mastodon, Hacker News+77 posts in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (rising)
AI-generated code is buggy and hard to reviewAI codingNotion, Claude Code, Claude, Jira, Terraform11d activeSeen on Hacker News, Reddit, App Store reviews+44 posts in the last 7 days, 4 the 7 days before (steady)
LLMs give confidently wrong answersLLM appsGitHub, PyPI, Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, Power BI9d activeSeen on Hacker News, Reddit, Bluesky+44 posts in the last 7 days, 4 the 7 days before (steady)
Context windows run out on real workloadsLLM appsOllama, vLLM, Cursor, Grok, ChatGPT, Codex8d active+1Seen on GitHub issues, Hacker News, Reddit, Community forums+66 posts in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (rising)
GitHub upgrades break working setupsOutages and changeGitHub, Terraform, Vercel, Kubernetes, LlamaIndex, Grafana8d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Hacker News+22 posts in the last 7 days, 5 the 7 days before (fading)
Vendor lock-in makes switching tools costlyCloud and tool costvLLM, AWS, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Qwen, Hugging Face8d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Hacker News, Reddit+33 posts in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (rising)
Migrating between platforms is slow and riskyData engineeringNotion, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, vLLM, Hugging Face, GitHub8d active+2Seen on Reddit, GitHub issues, App Store reviews, Hacker News, Community forums+33 posts in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
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)
Deprecations force unplanned migrationsOutages and changeOpenAI, GitHub, ChatGPT, Anthropic, Ollama, Docker7d active+1Seen on GitHub issues, fru.dev sites, Hacker News, Reddit+44 posts in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (rising)
Tool prices rise faster than the value they giveCloud and tool costGitHub Copilot, Perplexity, Apache Airflow, Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor7d activeSeen on Hacker News, App Store reviews+22 posts 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)
RAG retrieval returns irrelevant or missing contextLLM appsGitHub, Vercel, SQL Server, Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity6d active+1Seen on GitHub issues, Hacker News, DEV, Reddit+33 posts in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (rising)
Kubernetes upgrades break working setupsOutages and changeKubernetes, GitHub, Docker, Model Context Protocol6d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Hacker News+33 posts in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
Models fail to return valid structured outputLLM appsGitHub, Hugging Face, Ollama, LlamaIndex, ChatGPT, Anthropic6d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Hacker News, Reddit+22 posts in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
Tools are clunky and unintuitive to useDev toolingSlack, Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, pandas5d active+1Seen on GitHub issues, Reddit, App Store reviews, Hacker News+33 posts in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (rising)
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)
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)

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