Ask HN: What is one thing about AI that annoys you the most?
Sometimes I’ll ask Claude to think through a problem with me, and instead of talking, it immediately starts editing files and writing code.
Like… bro, I’m not asking you to do it yet. Let’s think first.
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Lack of versioning in workspaces. Multiple times I've been "vibe coding" my way happily through adding feature after feature until ... the chatbot goes off the rails and breaks stuff. No amount of additional prompting will fix the issue no matter how many time Claude/CoPilot says "I see the problem. Let me fix that..." and it only gets worse.
Claude provides a * SINGLE STEP * of undo. Gee, thanks.
So, now I'm forced to snapshot code myself. I just wish that was built in.
The impact on hardware prices, fueled by out of control purchasing departments with blank checks.
Web hosts realizing that there's a bigger market for selling training data than actually supplying content to regular human readers.
It's getting more and more difficult to convince web servers that I'm human.
Opencode has a toggle for planning and edit modes, you might like that.
ad targeting.
a technology that could be used for something productive, being used to side channel ad reconnisaince and delivery in a guilous fashion.
That it is called AI.