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

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Post by urbandw311er »

PunchyHamster wrote: post #394

We really need some law to stop "you have been banned and we won't even tell you actual reason for it", it's become a plague, made worse with automated systems giving out a ban

Do we though? It’s an important question about liberty - at what point does a business become so large that it’s not allowed to decide who gets to use it?

There was a famous case here in the UK of a cake shop that banned a customer for wanting a cake made for a gay wedding because it was contra the owners’ religious beliefs. That was taken all the way up to the Supreme Court IIRC.

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

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Post by aswegs8 »

cortesoft wrote: post #5

I am really confused as to what happened here. The use of ‘disabled organization’ to refer to the author made it extra confusing. I think I kind of have an idea what the author was doing, but not really.

Yeah, I couldn't follow this "disabled organization" and "non-disabled organization" naming either.

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

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Post by EnPissant »

deaux wrote: post #296
syntaxing wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Serious question, why is codex and mistral(vibe) not a real alternative?

Codex: Three reasons. I've used all extensively, for multiple months. Main one is that it's ~3 times slower. This is the real dealbreaker, not quality. I can guarantee that if tomorrow we woke up and gpt-5.2-codex became the same speed as 4.5-opus without a change in quality, a huge number of people - not HNers but everyone price sensitive - would switch to Codex because it's so much cheaper per usage. The second one…

Have you tried lower reasoning levels?

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

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Post by vidarh »

vunderba wrote: post #268
genewitch wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sounds like the "thinking tokens" are a mechanism to extract more money from users?

Anecdotally but it definitely feels like in the last couple weeks CC tends to be more aggressive at pulling in significantly larger chunks of an existing code base - even for some simple queries I'll see it easily ramp up to 50-60k token usage.

It's absolutely a work-around in part, but use sub-agents, have the top level pass in the data, and limit the tool use for the sub-agent (the front matter can specify allowed tools) so it can't read more.

(And once you've done that, also consider whether a given task can be achieved with a dumber model - I've had good luck switching some of my sub-agents to Haiku).

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Aldipower wrote: post #409

I was recently kicked out from ChatGPT because I wrote "a*hole" in a context where ChatGPT constantly kept repeating nonsense! I find the ban by OpenAI to be very intrusive. Remember, ChatGPT is a machine! And I did not hurt any sentient being with my statement, nor was the GPT chat public. As long as I do not hurt any feeling beings with my thoughts, I can do whatever I want, can't I? After all, as the saying goes,…

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

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Post by mrkeen »

chii wrote: post #311
indiantinker wrote: post #210

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?

> food

  Can you sell or share farm-saved seed?
  "It is illegal to sell, buy, barter or share farm-saved seed," warns Sam. [1]

  Can feed grain be sown?
  No – it is against the law to use any bought-in grain to establish a crop. [1]

  FTC sues John Deere over farmers' right to repair tractors
  The lawsuit, which Deere called "meritless," accuses the company of withholding access to its technology and best repair tools and of maintaining monopoly power over many repairs. Deere also reaps additional profits from selling parts, the complaint alleges, as authorized dealers tend to sell pricey Deere-branded parts for their repairs rather than generic alternatives. [2]
[1] https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/the-dos-and-donts-of-farm-saved...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5260895/john-deere-ftc-...

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

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Post by vidarh »

ayewo wrote: post #354
troyvit wrote: post #342

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This really speaks to the need to separate the LLM you use and the coding tool that uses it. LLM makers utilizing the SaaS model make money on the tokens you spend whether or not they need them. Tools like aider and opencode (each in their own way) use separate tools build a map of the codebase that they can use to work with code using fewer tokens. When I see posts like this I start to understand why Anthropic now b…

When you state it like that, I now totally understand why Anthropic have a strong incentive to kick out OpenCode. OpenCode is incentivized to make a good product that uses your token budget efficiently since it allows you to seamlessly switch between different models. Anthropic as a model provider on the other hand, is incentivized to exhaust your token budget to keep you hooked. You'll be forced to wait when your us…

OpenCode also would be incentivized to do things like having you configure multiple providers and route requests to cheaper providers where possible.

Controlling the coding tool absolutely is a major asset, and will be an even greater asset as the improvements in each model iteration makes it matter less which specific model you're using.

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

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Post by ssl-3 »

Aldipower wrote: post #409

I was recently kicked out from ChatGPT because I wrote "a*hole" in a context where ChatGPT constantly kept repeating nonsense! I find the ban by OpenAI to be very intrusive. Remember, ChatGPT is a machine! And I did not hurt any sentient being with my statement, nor was the GPT chat public. As long as I do not hurt any feeling beings with my thoughts, I can do whatever I want, can't I? After all, as the saying goes,…

When ChatGPT fucks up, I call it "fuckface."

As in, for example: "No, fuckface. You hallucinated that concept."

I've been doing this years.

shrug

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

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Post by moravak1984 »

9rx wrote: post #428
Aldipower wrote: post #409

I was recently kicked out from ChatGPT because I wrote "a*hole" in a context where ChatGPT constantly kept repeating nonsense! I find the ban by OpenAI to be very intrusive. Remember, ChatGPT is a machine! And I did not hurt any sentient being with my statement, nor was the GPT chat public. As long as I do not hurt any feeling beings with my thoughts, I can do whatever I want, can't I? After all, as the saying goes,…

> Remember, ChatGPT is a machine! Same goes for HN, yet it does not take kindly to certain expressions either. I suppose the trouble is that machines do not operate without human involvement, so for both HN and ChatGPT there are humans in the loop, and some of those humans are not able to separate strings of text from reality. Silly, sure, but humans are often silly. That is just the nature of the beast.

> Same goes for HN, yet it does not take kindly to certain expressions either.

> I suppose the trouble is that machines do not operate without human involvement

Sure, but HN has at least one human that has been taking care of it since inception and reads many (if not most) of the comments, whereas ChatGPT mostly absorbed a shiton of others' IP.

I'm sure the occassional swearing does not bother the human moderators that fine-tune the thing, certainly not more than the violent, explicit images they are forced to watch in order for you to have nicer, smarter answers.

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