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I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

So why didn't this happen with electricity, water and food, but would with thinking capacity?

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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The Pro plan quota seems to be getting worse. I can get maybe 20-30 minutes work done before I hit my 4 hour quota. I found myself using it more just for the planning phase to get a little bit more time out of it, but yesterday I managed to ask it ONE question in plan mode (from a fresh quota window), and while it was thinking it ran out of quota. I'm assuming it probably pulled in a ton of references from my project…

I never run out of this mysterious quota thing. I close Claude Code at 10% context and restart. I work for hours and it never says anything. No clue why you’re hitting this. $230 pro max.

Pro is 20x less than Max

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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^ THIS I've run out of quota on my Pro plan so many times in the past 2-3 weeks. This seems to be a recent occurrence. And I'm not even that active. Just one project, execute in Plan > Develop > Test mode, just one terminal. That's it. I keep getting a quota reset every few hours. What's happening @Anthropic ?? Anybody here who can answer??

I very recently (~ 1 week ago) subscribed to the Pro plan and was indeed surprised by how fast I reached my quota compared to say Codex with similar subscription tier. The UX is generally really cool with Claude Code, which left me with a bit of a bittersweet feeling of not even being able to truly explore all the possibilities since after just making basic planning and code changes I am already out of quota for expe…

I use opencode with codex after all the shenanigans from anthropic recently. You might want to give that a shot!

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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post #311

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

So why didn't this happen with electricity, water and food, but would with thinking capacity?

> electricity, water and food

Wars are frequently fought of these three things, and there's no shortage of examples of the humans controlling these resources lording over those that did not.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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They whistleblowed themselves that Claude Cowork was coded by Claude Code… :)

You can tell they’re all vibe coded. Claude iOS app, Claude on the web (including Claude Code on the web) and Claude Code are some of the buggiest tools I have ever had to use on a daily basis. I’m including monstrosities like Altium and Solidworks and Vivado in the mix - software that actually does real shit constrained by the laws of physics rather than slinging basic JSON and strings around over HTTP. It’s an utte…

Even their status page (which are usually gamed) shows two 9s over the past 90 days.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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post #242

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^ THIS I've run out of quota on my Pro plan so many times in the past 2-3 weeks. This seems to be a recent occurrence. And I'm not even that active. Just one project, execute in Plan > Develop > Test mode, just one terminal. That's it. I keep getting a quota reset every few hours. What's happening @Anthropic ?? Anybody here who can answer??

This whole API vs plan looks weird to me. Why not force everyone to use API? You pay for what you use, it's very simple. API should be the most honest way to monetize, right? This fixed subscription plan with some hardly specified quotas looks like they want to extract extra money from these users who pay $200 and don't use that value, at the same time preventing other users from going over $200. Like I understand th…

You're welcome to use the API, it asks you to do that when you run out of quota on your Pro plan. The next thing you find out is how expensive using the API is. More honest, perhaps, but you definitely will be paying for that.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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post #311

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

So why didn't this happen with electricity, water and food, but would with thinking capacity?

It did. Look around you.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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i accidently logged in from my browser that is set to use a socks proxy instead of chrome which i dont set to a proxy and was otherwise using claude code with. they quickly banned me and refunded my subscription. i dont know if its worth it to try to appeal. does a human even read those appeals? figured i could just use cursor and gemini models with api pricing. but im sad to not be able to try claude code i had just signed up.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Can someone explain what he was actually doing here? Was the issue that he was reselling these Claude.md files, or that he was selling project setup or creation services to his clients? Or maybe all scaffolding activity (back and forth) looked like automated usage?

if possible, can you quote the part of their TOS/TOU that says i can't use something like aider? (aider is the only one i know, i'm not promoting it)

You can, with an API key.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

#320

So you have two AIs. Let's call them Claude and Hal. Whenever Claude gets something wrong, Hal is shown what went wrong and asked to rewrite the claude.md prompt to get Claude to do it right. Eventually Hal starts shouting at Claude. Why is this inevitable? Because Hal only ever sees Claude's failures and none of the successes. So of course Hal gets frustrated and angry that Claude continually gets everything wrong n…

I don't think it's inevitable often the AI will just keep looping again and again. It can happily without frustration loop forever.

It doesn't loop though -- it has continuously updating context -- and if that context continues to head one direction it will eventually break down.

My own personal experience with LLMs is that after enough context they just become useless -- starting to make stupid mistakes that they successfully avoided earlier.

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