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Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by jasonkester »

grebc wrote: post #50
jasonkester wrote: post #45

It's amazing that companies still can't handle the concept of somebody moving to a different country but still using a credit card from their original country. I spent two days on the phone with Microsoft last year trying to find a way to pay them $700 to renew my lapsed Visual Studio subscription. I live in France and want to pay with a US card (or UK card or even a French card at this point), but because of some co…

Unless you’re on vacation what reason is there for your IP to be on a separate continent to the billing address attached to a credit card? From the POV of all the people in the payment processing chain.

Because people move to different countries.

There's no way to update the billing address of my US bank to a foreign address. My UK bank is in the address of my house there. My French bank is in the address of my house here.

As I said, you get one and only one guess as to how the company in question wants to handle this. I want to buy Minecraft for my kid's birthday. Do I buy it from the US store with my US card because that's where I lived when I set up my Microsoft account? Do I buy it in the French store with my French card (with that US Microsoft account)?

Answer: Both of those will get you permanently banned from buying Minecraft on that account. There's a Secret Third Answer, but there's no way of knowing it in advance (or even after the fact since there is no functional customer support that knows about this issue).

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by f311a »

londons_explore wrote: post #46
f311a wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using Deepseek flash for certain tasks, it is pretty hard to spend $10 on it. All their top models (by usage) are not from frontier labs.

I suspect the main use of these models is for sending mass spam campaigns and other low-value tasks which are very price sensitive. If you're paid a Western salary and using the model interactively (eg. For coding), you are wasting time+money by using the less good models.

No, it's good for coding and faster to iterate. Flash models work almost the same for changes under 1000 LOC when you dictate how you want your code to look. Big models still suck at big changes and big changes are hard to review.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by Bishonen88 »

59nadir wrote: post #42
Bishonen88 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is as unhelpful as it gets. The genie is out of the bottle - people can create unimaginable things with claude within hours. What would take months/years can be done in a day or a week. Being banned on those platforms is a real setback for many users. One might argue that openai etc. are valid alternatives, but when they dropped fable (and perhaps reinstate?), not being able to use it simply means others can do…

> What would take months/years can be done in a day or a week. Hahahaha, this reads like pure unadulterated marketing. I sincerely hope you're getting paid for these things at least, it would be sad for you to be this way without even getting anything in return.

yes, I'm getting paid handsomely for delivering software faster than every before, using llm's. If you mistake that for marketing, then so be it.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by LtWorf »

Bishonen88 wrote: post #53
59nadir wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What would take months/years can be done in a day or a week. Hahahaha, this reads like pure unadulterated marketing. I sincerely hope you're getting paid for these things at least, it would be sad for you to be this way without even getting anything in return.

yes, I'm getting paid handsomely for delivering software faster than every before, using llm's. If you mistake that for marketing, then so be it.

I hope you write in your contracts that you have 0 liability.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by Leonard_of_Q »

I foresee an old favourite making a comeback:

Learn to code

This is only partly tongue-cheek. If you're using it all the time your coding skills will have declined markedly so it might be good practice to DIY when the is no time pressure or production quota.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by Freedumbs »

Bishonen88 wrote: post #29
pyeri wrote: post #18

Might not be a very popular advice or even what you're looking for, but I think Anthropic banning you (or any user for that matter) is a blessing in disguise. The sheer amount of compute resources consumed by their high reasoning "pondering..." and "bloviating..." tokens isn't sustainable at scale. Eventually, they must ban everyone but those with deep and infinite pockets in order for this model to be sustainable an…

This is as unhelpful as it gets. The genie is out of the bottle - people can create unimaginable things with claude within hours. What would take months/years can be done in a day or a week. Being banned on those platforms is a real setback for many users. One might argue that openai etc. are valid alternatives, but when they dropped fable (and perhaps reinstate?), not being able to use it simply means others can do…

I don't know if it's unhelpful if you consider broader time scales. In 2027 or 2028, Anthropic and OpenAI might decide to stop subsidizing LLM usage and charge enough to profit. Would you pay $100 for a bug fix? They're already headed in this direction. Fable was 10x cost of Opus 4.6. They can't keep burning cash forever and we're reaching the peak of what can be justifiably spent on training cycles. Speaking of training, did OpenAI just give up?

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by Freedumbs »

PinguTS wrote: post #25
rspoerri wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont know why people use openrouter ,instead of a monthly subscription, if they can. While i am barely able to use up my 100$ monthly subscription, i can easily spend 10$ a day on openrouter (200-300$/month). Using top-tier models on openrouter is so much more expensive from my experience then any subscription.

All are moving from monthly to usage payments anyway. You use the model you need. You don't need to use always the top tier model for anything. That is your decision. You can use a top tier for planing and then the agents can use cheap Chinese models. Much more cost effective.

To create an OpenRouter account, you have to supply a phone number. Neither Anthropic or OpenAI required this. This prevents privacy aware users from signing up.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by 2ndabdulhamid »

Freedumbs wrote: post #59
PinguTS wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All are moving from monthly to usage payments anyway. You use the model you need. You don't need to use always the top tier model for anything. That is your decision. You can use a top tier for planing and then the agents can use cheap Chinese models. Much more cost effective.

To create an OpenRouter account, you have to supply a phone number. Neither Anthropic or OpenAI required this. This prevents privacy aware users from signing up.

Anthropic request ID verification and OpenAI requires phone number in Europe. I don't know about other parts of the world, but I don't see any issues with OpenRouter.
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