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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?

#542

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> shows a profound gap between what people think working in customer service is like and how fucking hard it actually is Nicely fitting the pattern where everyone who is bullish on AI seems to think that everyone else's specialty is ripe for AI takeover (but not my specialty! my field is special/unique!)

to be fair at least half of the software engineers i know are facing some level of existential crisis when seeing how well claude code works, and what it means for their job in the long term and these are people are not junior developers working on trivial apps

I feel grateful that I retired a few years ago and no longer have to make a living being a developer.

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

#543

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.

> at what point does a business become so large that it’s not allowed to decide who gets to use it?

It's not about size, it's about justification to fight the ban. You should be able to check if the business has violated your legal rights, or if they even broke their own rules, because failure happens.

> 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.

I guess it was this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_v_Ashers_Baking_Company_Lt...

There was a similar case in USA too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...

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

#545

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.

The author was using instance A of Claude to update a `claude.md` while another instance B of Claude was consuming that file. When Claude B did something wrong, the author asked Claude A to update the `claude.md` so that Claude B didn’t make the same mistake again

Is it possible that this was flagged as account-sharing, leading to the ban?

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

#546

I clicked your link to go look at the innocent Claude.md file as you invited us to do. Only problem: there is no Claude.md file in your repo! What are you trying to hide? Are you some kind of con man? Looks like Claude.ai had the right idea when they banned you.

It's not an actual file but as a variable in a js file. The last link in the blog post does link to a commit with a file that contains the instructions for Claude, lines 129-737.

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

#548
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?

Ask Ukraine about Holodomor.

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

#549

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because my local is a laptop and doesn't have a GPU cluster or TPU pod attached to it.

If you have enough RAM, you can run Qwen A3B models on the CPU.

RAM got a little more expensive lately for some reason.

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

#550
post #519

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If only it was API calls. I like using it through claude code. But it would be infinitely more flexible if my $200 subscription worked through the API

I don't understand, you CAN use claude code through the API.

Yeah, but he can't use his $200 subscription for the API.

That's limited to accessing the models through code/desktop/mobile.

And while I'm also using their subscriptions because of the cost savings vs direct access, having the subscription be considerably cheaper than the usage billing rings all sorts of alarm bells that it won't last.

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