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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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Post by xattt »

7777777phil wrote: post #582
TyrunDemeg101 wrote: post #570

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?"

Likely using timers/alarms to keep track of when jobs can resume.

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

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Post by 0x9e3779b6 »

left-struck wrote: post #500
bastard_op wrote: post #108

I've been doing something a lot like this, using a claude-desktop instance attached to my personal mcp server to spawn claude-code worker nodes for things, and for a month or two now it's been working great using the main desktop chat as a project manager of sorts. I even started paying for MAX plan as I've been using it effectively to write software now (I am NOT a developer). Lately it's gotten entirely flaky, wher…

Making a new account and seeing doing the exact same thing to see if it happens again… would be against TOS and therefore is something you absolutely shouldn’t do

Claude shows me more than one personal account, as I registered via single signon and then - via e-mail, and I paid once only for one of them.

It’s effectively a multi-tenant interface.

I also used individual acc but on corp e-mail, previously.

You could generate a new multi-use CC in your vibe-bank app (as Revolut), buy burner (e) sim for sms (5 eur in NL); then rewrite all requests at your mitm proxy to substitute a device id to one, not derived from your machine.

But same device id, same phone could be perfectly legitimate use case: you registered on corp e-mail then you changed your work place, using the same machine.

or you lost access to your e-mail (what a pity)

But to get good use of it, someone should compose proper requests to ClickHouse or whatever they use, for logs, build some logic to run as a service or web hook to detect duplicates with a pipeline to act on it.

And a good percentage of flags wouldn’t have been ToC violations.

That’s a bad vibe, can you imagine how much trial and error prompting it requires?..

They can’t vibe the way though the claude code bugs alone, on time!

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

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Post by saghm »

fluoridation wrote: post #373
saghm wrote: post #360

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sure, but that's not what they said, which is why it's confusing. Earlier in the article they referred to themselves as the "disabled organization", so it's not obvious to me that there's change in what they mean by the word to an entirely different one. Your explanation is plausible and consistent, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's correct, and I don't think that being internally consistent is sufficient evidence to conclude that something is true.

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

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Post by dudeinhawaii »

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…

Unpopular opinion but I prefer slow and correct.

My experience on Claude Max (still on it till end-of-month) has been frequent incomplete assignments and troubling decision making. I'll give you an example of each from yesterday.

1. Asked Claude to implement the features in a v2_features.md doc. It completed 8 of 10 but 3 incorrectly. I gave GPT-5.1-Codex-Max (high) the same tasks and it completed 10 of 10 but took perhaps 5-10x as long. Annoyingly, with LLM variability, I can't know for sure if I tried Claude again it would get it correct. The only thing I do know is that GTP-5.2 and 5.1 do a lot more "double-checking" both prior to executing and after.

2. I asked Claude to update a string being displayed in the UI of my app to display something else instead. The string is powered by a json config. Claude searched the code, somehow assumed it was being loaded by a db, did not find the json and opted to write code to overwrite whatever comes out of the 'db' (incorrect) to be what I asked for. This is... not desired behavior and the source of a category of hidden bugs that Claude has created in the past (other models do this as well but less often). Max took its time, found the source json file, and made the update in the correct place.

I can only "sit back and let an agent code" if I trust that it'll do the work right. I don't need it fast, I need it done right. It's already saving me hours where I can do other things in parallel. So, I don't get this argument.

That said, I have a Claude Max and OpenAI Pro subscription and use them both. I instead typically have Claude Opus work on UI and areas where I can visually confirm logic quickly (usually) and Codex in back-end code.

I often wonder how much the complexity of codebases affects how people discuss these models.

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

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Post by bmurphy1976 »

rubenflamshep wrote: post #589
bmurphy1976 wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks. I don't know why but I just I couldn't find that command. I spent so much time trying to understand what /context and other commands were showing me I got lost in that noise.

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

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Post by dudeinhawaii »

Conscat wrote: post #161
thtmnisamnstr wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gemini CLI is a solid alternative to Claude Code. The limits are restrictive, though. If you're paying for Max, I can't imagine Gemini CLI will take you very far.

Gemini CLI regularly gets stuck failing to do anything after declaring its plan to me. There seems to be no way to un-lock it from this state except closing and reopening the interface, losing all its progress.

Depending on task complexity, I like to write a small markdown file with the list of features or tasks. If I lose a session (with any model), I'll start with "we were disconnected, please review the desired features in 'features.md', verify current state, and complete anything remaining.

That has reliably worked for me with Gemini, Codex, and Opus. If you can get them to check-off features as they complete them, works even better (i.e, success criteria and an empty checkbox for them to mark off).

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

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Post by rasmus1610 »

laserDinosaur wrote: post #223
throwup238 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Very happy to see that I am not the only one. My pro subscription lasts maybe 30 minutes for the 5 hour limit. It is completely unusable and that's why I actually switched to OpenCode + GLM 4.7 for my personal projects and. It's not as clever as Opus 4.5 but it often gets the job done anyway

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

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Post by kachapopopow »

TyrunDemeg101 wrote: post #570

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…

this is just wrong, I have several 3x x20 accounts running full tilt hitting limits every week I did get few accounts banned, but that's because my proxy was leaking nginx headers.

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

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Post by GeoAtreides »

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?

Funny enough Herbert does address this EXACT point, he calls it hydraulic despotism
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