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

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Post by thunfischtoast » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 6:52 AM UTC

laserDinosaur wrote: post #223

throwup238 wrote: post #117

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Anthropic has been flying by the seat of their pants for a while now and it shows across the board. From the terminal flashing bug that’s been around for months to the lack of support to instabilities in Claude mobile and Code for the web (I get 10-20% message failure rates on the former and 5-10% on CC for web). They’re growing too fast and it’s bursting the seams of the company. If there’s ever a correction in the…

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've used the Anthropic models mostly through Openrouter using aider. With so much buzz around Claude Code I wantes to try it out and thought that a subscription might be more cost efficient for me. I was kinda disappointed by how quickly I hit the quota limit. Claude Code gives me a lot more freedom than what aider can do, on the other side I have the feeling that pure coding tasks work better through aider or Roo Code. The API version is also much much faster that the subscription one.

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

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Post by shevy-java » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 6:53 AM UTC

See it as a honour with distinction: the future skynet AI (aka Claude) considers you as person with his/her own opinion.

By the way, since as of late, google search redirects me to a "are you a bot?" question constantly. The primary reason is because I no longer use google search directly via the browser, but instead via the commandline (and for some weird reason chrome does not keep my settings, as I start it exclusively via the --no-sandbox option). We really need alternatives to Google - this is getting out of hand how much top-down control these corporations now have over our digital lives.

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

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Post by fluoridation » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 6:53 AM UTC

saghm wrote: post #360

fluoridation wrote: post #224

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No, I don't think so. I think my interpretation is correct. > a textbox where I tried to convince some Claude C in the multi-trillion-quadrillion dollar non-disabled organization > So I wrote to their support, this time I wrote the text with the help of an LLM from another non-disabled organization. > My guess is that this likely tripped the "Prompt Injection" heuristics that the non-disabled organization has. A "non…

It seems just as likely to me that they're just using their terminology inconsistently as it is that they're using it consistently but with that egregious amount of ambiguity. The only thing that I'm confident about is that they're communicating in a very confusing way, and that doesn't really give me any strong insight into whether they're being consistent but vague or just plain vague.

Again, I don't agree. If you replace every instance of "non-disabled organization" with just "company", the sentences make sense. There's no need to suppose that the term means anything else, when this interpretation resolves all the outstanding questions satisfactorily and simply.

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

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Post by nobodywillobsrv » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 6:55 AM UTC

vbezhenar wrote: post #284

aanet wrote: 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…

The fixed fee plan is because the agent and the tools have internal choices/planning about cost. If you simply pay for API the only feedback to them that they are being too costly is for you to stop.

If you look at tool calls like MCP and what not you can see it gets ridiculous. Even though it's small for example calling pal MCP from the prompt is still burning tokens afaik. This is "nobody's" fault in this case really but you can see how the incentives are and we all need to think how to make this entire space more usable.

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

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Post by elyobo » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 6:58 AM UTC

mkl wrote: post #206

bastard_op wrote: post #186

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I tried Gemini like a year or so ago, and I gave up after it directly refused to write me a script and instead tried to tell me how to learn to code. I do not make this up.

That's at least two major updates ago. Probably worth another try.

I tried it on Tuesday and, having used CC a lot lately, was shocked at how bad it was - I'd forgotten.

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

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Post by staplers » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 6:59 AM UTC

shevy-java wrote: post #372

See it as a honour with distinction: the future skynet AI (aka Claude) considers you as person with his/her own opinion. By the way, since as of late, google search redirects me to a "are you a bot?" question constantly. The primary reason is because I no longer use google search directly via the browser, but instead via the commandline (and for some weird reason chrome does not keep my settings, as I start it exclus…

  and for some weird reason chrome does not keep my settings

Why use chrome? Firefox is easily superior for modern surfing.

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

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Post by nineteen999 » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 7:00 AM UTC

Seems weird, I have Claude's review other claude's work all the time. Maybe not as adversarily as that lol, i tend to encourage the instances to work collectively.

Also the API timeouts that people complain about - i see them on my Linux box a fair bit, especially when it has a lot of background tasks open, but it seems pretty rock solid on my Windows machine.

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

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Post by aja12 » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 7:03 AM UTC

thunfischtoast wrote: post #371

laserDinosaur wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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've used the Anthropic models mostly through Openrouter using aider. With so much buzz around Claude Code I wantes to try it out and thought that a subscription might be more cost efficient for me. I was kinda disappointed by how quickly I hit the quota limit. Claude Code gives me a lot more freedom than what aider can do, on the other side I have the feeling that pure coding tasks work better through aider or Roo C…

Being in the same boat as you I switched to OpenCode with z.ai GLM 4.7 Pro plan and it's quite ok. Not as smart as Opus but smart enough for my needs, and the pricing is unbeatable

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

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Post by Jean-Papoulos » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 7:06 AM UTC

>Yes, the only e-mail I got was a credit note giving my money back.

That's great news ! They don't have nearly enough staff to deal with support issues, so they default to reimbursement. Which means if you do this every month, you get Claude for free :)

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

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Post by cryptonector » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 7:08 AM UTC

Jean-Papoulos wrote: post #379

>Yes, the only e-mail I got was a credit note giving my money back. That's great news ! They don't have nearly enough staff to deal with support issues, so they default to reimbursement. Which means if you do this every month, you get Claude for free :)

What, with different credit cards / whatever, and under different names, different Google accounts, etc.?