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11 problems matching Hacker News, rising first. The list grows every day.

ProblemThis week
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)
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)
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)
Fine-tuning is costly and results are unpredictableMLOpsHugging Face, GitHub, llama.cpp, PyTorch, NVIDIA, Tesla5d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Hacker News, Reddit+44 posts in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (rising)
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)
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)
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)
Gemini gives confidently wrong answersLLM appsGemini, GitHub, VS Code, Model Context Protocol, npm, YouTube3d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Hacker News+22 posts in the last 7 days, 0 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)
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)
Burnout and overwork across tech teamsCareersClaude, Jira, Google Cloud, Cisco4d activeSeen on Reddit, Hacker News+22 posts in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (rising)

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