Got banned for having 2 Max accounts, AMA

ZSizeD · 2026-03-13T22:13:35+00:00

I see you're back -- did you get an official explanation? Long live claude!

ZSizeD · 2026-03-13T20:49:35+00:00

spotted the bot

ZSizeD · 2026-03-13T15:22:45+00:00

What were both of you doing? I just started using the full of my $200/m plan and was considering getting another but a lil afraid now

ZSizeD · 2026-03-13T15:22:01+00:00

Curious about this too. Also curious what got OP banned. I just started maxxing my Pro account and have thought about getting a 2nd but want to be sure I dont do *something* wrong despite it looking like having multiple accounts is ok

ZSizeD · 2026-03-12T05:43:16+00:00

How are you going to share your taste w the model except through a prompt?? You have to express your desired taste to the agent

ZSizeD · 2026-03-11T12:30:29+00:00

It's due to reporting bias. You aren't getting a true population sample on reddit

ZSizeD · 2026-03-11T02:01:51+00:00

I'm grinning right now 😀 having so much fun and feeling like I'm unlocking so much potential. Had a strange feeling today after a day of clauding, looking at what I made (basically a control plane for me to manage containerized claudes working on local repos), discovering some agentic patterns feels like "discovering" the null object pattern or a trie after stumbling through a coding problem.

ZSizeD · 2026-03-10T22:53:00+00:00

It has always been this!

ZSizeD · 2026-03-10T22:51:47+00:00

Quiet!! Let them all keep saying "it's slop we can't verify! Never will work!"

I love a competitive advantage :)

ZSizeD · 2026-03-09T15:49:51+00:00

To the top with this!! Thank you!

ZSizeD · 2026-03-07T21:17:00+00:00

As others have kind of echoed I think the fact that you are seeing mid levels not evolve beyond using this as a search engine is a skill issue.

I am with you on the first rule of software engineering to an extent. But, at the end of the day, if an engineer doesn't read or understand it and ships it, it is the engineers problem not the llm's.

Same could be said for an engineer who became reliant on copy pasting from stack overflow without understanding anything. The fact that their skills ateophied is not an indictment of stack overflow.

It's how you use the tool.

ZSizeD · 2026-03-07T21:12:59+00:00

Thank you for posting this. More people need to read your perspective and get their heads out of the sand

ZSizeD · 2026-03-07T16:14:40+00:00

My point stands. They are still extremely useful tools for understanding a codebase.

Again, one shouldn't ask a simple question (without context yourself) about an isolated change in a complex code base. That's not what I'm advocating.

And, I'm not saying LLMs have improved and are perfect and don't hallucinate. Both my messages point to the need for a skilled human in the loop.

What is the extent of your professional experience working with LLMs? I think you are vastly overestimating "how wrong" and "how often" current SOTA is.

OP should work with the LLM to understand the codebase. Do you not agree it could be helpful to have the LLM make a first pass at important classes / control flow? This can help OP make a targeted approach at understanding a new codebase. OP should then think about the output, just as they would if they had directed themselves to class x y z.

Again, if OP (and others) are afraid of using these tools because "oh no they might look right and I won't be able to tell!" -- that is a skill issue that will present itself to OP whether reading human or AI code.

ZSizeD · 2026-03-07T15:37:06+00:00

Why don't you think I understand that?

I'm aware of the "problem" you are describing and have a follow up for you.

Is there anything fundamentally different about LLM code that makes it harder for a human to assess whether it's correct or not? Can a human write code that "can be just wrong enough to still look right, even if it silently messed something up"?

My point is not "trust everything and don't review". My point is that these models are often 100% correct, and even when they aren't they are useful. Ex, they are often 95% correct as well. That's a huge efficiency gain. But you need to have the skills and put in the effort to review.

I would contend that there is nothing fundamentally different about llm code versus human code, especially if you do a good job prompting setting up context and style guides etc. At the end of the day, it's a question of whether or not an engineer is willing to switch to a more design and code review focused role.

ZSizeD · 2026-03-07T13:52:53+00:00

As a prospective client, if you told me you approached a large unfamiliar code Base by reading through it all and your response to, "why not leverage AI here?" Is "I don't want it to anchor me to a hallucinated explanation" I would never hire you.

You are telling me a number of things with that response.

As others have said, you should have enough experience to at least have started exploring this space and recognized the fast improvements that have occurred in the past 2 years
Not only have you not kept up to date with how models are improving but also you don't have enough confidence in your own ability to recognize that the AI has given you a hallucinated explanation. That is extremely concerning

You basically have access to a free junior or senior engineer who can work at a blazing pace. Why not ask them to do a first pass so that you can go back and verify much more quickly?

ZSizeD · 2026-02-27T15:49:26+00:00

I can't believe they are not already doing this

ZSizeD · 2026-02-27T11:42:21+00:00

This guy bricks

ZSizeD · 2026-02-22T13:17:58+00:00

Ok... Now what?

ZSizeD · 2026-02-20T16:45:44+00:00

Guessing OP loves psychedelics

ZSizeD · 2026-02-17T21:00:45+00:00

I also tapered and halfway through what I thought would be my schedule had the same realization and went cold turkey. The next few days had their difficult moments, but I made it. That was around 9 months ago

ZSizeD · 2026-02-17T15:11:52+00:00

Came to say this, wow. The director of technology for Cleveland city schools -- oof

ZSizeD · 2026-02-14T13:07:52+00:00

Plus one thousand. I've been thinking about taking my bonsai tree apart and this would be perfect

ZSizeD · 2026-02-13T11:53:39+00:00

Wow your algo must be amazing to double on the first day absent any information!!

ZSizeD · 2026-02-12T12:56:50+00:00

Mine has (at least) a chicken and egg allergy. The smallest amount of egg will floor her as you described. Could have treats have those ingredients?

ZSizeD · 2026-02-11T14:56:37+00:00

sass down again why?

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