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

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“After creating a new account, I can confirm the quota drains 2.5x–3x slower. So basically Max (5x) on an older accounts is almost like Pro on a new one in terms of quota. Pretty blatant rug pull tbh.” lol

Your quota also seems to be higher after unsubscribing and resubscribing?

They'll also send you a free month of the 100 dollar plan if you unsubscribe to try and get you back.

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

#582

I was banned as well, out of the blue suddenly and without warning. I believe it was because I was either doing something like what OP was doing AND/OR using the allowed limits to their fullest extent. It completely blew me away and I felt suddenly so betrayed. I was paying $200/mo to fully utilize a service they offered and then without warning I apparently did something wrong and had no recourse. No one to ask, no…

Can you elaborate on "using the allowed limits to their fullest extent?"

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

#583
post #580

If you're reading this, Anthropic, it's suicide. I will actively look for a way to cancel my $200/month subscription if you keep killing paying developers' accounts without warning. It is simply too risky to start depending on Claude Code if you are going to become Apple in terms of support. Blocking xAI is also bad karma.

I am already actively looking, already begged for Chinese labs to release model which can outperform Opus 4.5

fyi: tried GLM-4.7, its good, but closer to Sonnet 4.5

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

#584

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

Actually, there are law to stop banks telling their client why they are flagged for money laundering

Yeah, the Bank Secrecy Act is probably one of the most anti-democratic laws out there.

Worse, the controls that governments have over financial systems are being viewed as a model for what they should have over technology.

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

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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…

It's like the very first days of computers at all. IBM supplied both the hardware and the software, and the software did not make the most efficient use of the hardware.

Which was nothing new itself of course. Conflicts of interest didn't begin with computers, or probably even writing.

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??

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…

The best thing about the max plan has been that I don’t have “range anxiety” with my workflows. This opens me to trying random things on a whim and explore the outer limits of the LLM capabilities more.

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

#588

I was banned as well, out of the blue suddenly and without warning. I believe it was because I was either doing something like what OP was doing AND/OR using the allowed limits to their fullest extent. It completely blew me away and I felt suddenly so betrayed. I was paying $200/mo to fully utilize a service they offered and then without warning I apparently did something wrong and had no recourse. No one to ask, no…

Oh, and have a backup workflow. Find / test / use other LLMs and providers. Don't become dependent on a single provider.

I have pro subscriptions to all three major providers, and have been planning to drop one eventually. Anthropic may end up making the decision for me, it sounds like, even though (or perhaps because) I've been using Claude CLI more than the others lately.

What I'd really like to do is put a machine in the back room that can do 100 tts or more with the latest, greatest Deepseek or Kimi model at full native quantization. That's the only way to avoid being held hostage by the big 3 labs and their captive government, which I'm guessing will react to the next big Chinese model release by prohibiting its deployment by any US hosting providers.

Unfortunately it will cost about $200K to do this locally. The smart money says (but doesn't act like) the "AI bubble" will pop soon. If the bubble pops, that hardware will be worth 20 cents on the dollar if I'm lucky, making such an investment seem reckless. And if the bubble doesn't pop, then it will probably cost $400K next year.

First-world problems, I guess...

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??

I've been hitting the limit a lot lately as well. The worst part is I try to compact things and check my limits using the / commands and can't make heads or tails how much I actually have left. It's not clear at all. I've been using CC until I run out of credits and then switch to Cursor (my employer pays for both). I prefer Claude but I never hit any limits in Cursor.

Hmm, are you using the /usage command? There’s also the ccusage package that I find useful.

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

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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…

Claude Code allegedly auto-includes the currently active file and often all visible tabs and sometimes neighboring files it thinks are 'related' - on every prompt. The advice I got when scouring the internets was primarily to close everything except the file you’re editing and maybe one reference file (before asking Claude anything). For added effect add something like 'Only use the currently open file. Do not read o…

Yes, it does exactly that. It also sends other prompts like generating 3 options to choose from, prefilling a reply like 'compile the code', etc. (I can confirm this because I connect CC to llama.cpp and use it with GLM-4.7. I see all these requests/prompts in the llama-server verbose log.)

You can stop most of this with

export DISABLE_NON_ESSENTIAL_MODEL_CALLS=1

And might as well disable telemetry, etc: export CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC=1

I also noticed every time you start CC, it sends off > 10k tokens preparing the different agents. So try not to close / re-open it too often.

source: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings

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