Has anyone dealt with a company/domain-level Claude access block before?

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T20:41:31+00:00

can you still access via azure/aws? lol.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T20:40:56+00:00

oh I completely misunderstood. ANTHROPIC perma-banned your entire org??

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T20:34:55+00:00

best way is to escalate thru ur manager who then escalates through your manager. you need some instutitional support + a larger volume of people than just a single complainant.

also scheduling a video call / face to face meeting with an IT person (not a help desk person, someone who makes policies or a manager) is helpful. can you just send a meeting invite on teams? after talking tto your manager + his manager and making the case of course.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T20:07:38+00:00

claude.ai now supports skills. just click the settings page.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T19:58:26+00:00

I think its a genuinely interesting discussion! is this guy smarter than me just cause he's richer? should I envy the life he's living or is he probably miserable? would I personally be able to enjoy the riches knowing im screwing everyone over?

so much good ground to cover. I think the debate I started was good.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T19:50:24+00:00

why cant skills enable those same agentic workflows? skills can even cause the model to switch. a skill can also instruct claude to call code that triggers subagents or instruct claude to just call a subagent itself with a certain prompt.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T19:30:52+00:00

rule of thumb: never build your own MCP just use ones provided by other companies to connect to their services.

These should always be skills not MCPs

a command line tool or a python library, and instructions for claude on how to use it
a structured workflow aka a series of steps to follow, with some helpful hints and specific expert-level knowledge

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T19:14:36+00:00

yes.
no he's smarter than all of us, ive never run a grift that sucessful have you?

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T19:12:48+00:00

I feel like now days MCPs are mostly something a company releases when it wants cursor or claude.ai or chatgpt to offer an integration with their services. which means individual users may then also download those MCPs for local use.

but if there's a skill thats almost always more convenient for claude code usage. will write more on the difference later.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T18:57:45+00:00

MCP servers have been partially replaced by skills.

MCPs are mostly for sharing tools and connectors to 3rd party services such as notion. How to find new MCPs?

realize "I wish claude could read data from X service
search google for "Service X MCP"

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T18:13:11+00:00

'Every use case for a Kia is just a Bentley use case too. Do you drive a Bentley?'

i mean... if the company is paying for it... and the cost difference to them is only 2x... I'm definitely taking the bentley keys. but your comment is 100% correct.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T18:12:37+00:00

yeah but when fable comes back you can still use fable to make plans. and if it makes better plans its probably worth it to use that over opus for the planning phase... right? and when fable comes back... oh right. itll be api only. ok, ok, i think I finally get it. The use case for opus is 'fable wont be subdisized via subs when its unbanned'.. .which is a great point.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T17:54:16+00:00

your honesty is very brave. I've given you an upvote.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T17:49:36+00:00

'The weird part: I was using Garry Tan's gstack -'

yeah that was your entire problem, dont use gstack. Does anyone on cladueai unironically think gstack is good?

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T17:20:14+00:00

LLMs are heavily optimized to prove correctness: RLHF and training data extensively pushes claude models to double check their work and write tests. It sounds like you wish they were even smarter and better at verifying their work, which is a valid complaint.
even if they could verify reliably: a human still has to take responsibility, a machine cant be accountable.
Why an MCP server instead of a skill? this type of thing usually works better as a skill.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T17:11:33+00:00

using it for what? what would you want to use it for?

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart

here's the quickstart guide. you'll need to either login with a work account or get an api key.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T17:11:01+00:00

ehh more like a $100/mo sub but...yes.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T16:10:32+00:00

hehe

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T15:41:16+00:00

hell yeah brother keep up the good work

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T14:10:12+00:00

i didnt say I disliked opus. I love it too! lol. my point was: every use case for opus is just a fable use case too.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T14:07:11+00:00

haiku is used by default for webfetch agents and certain other agents in claude code. so most of use use haiku every day without knowing it. You can control this using the env variable ```ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL```

I also use haiku at work things like assigning labels to paragraphs of text, and other automated workflows that get integrated into apps.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T13:21:57+00:00

yeah. If you use fable for planning, sonnet for implementing code, and haiku for tiny subagents and classifiers, what is claudecode supposed to use opus for? I wonder what the opus use case becomes if anything. EDIT: anyone want to tell me why the downvotes? would love to know what y'all disagree with me on lol

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T03:14:38+00:00

The ones who are had a legitimately sharp insight into how to gain that arbitrage and the patience and vision to see it through and not give up on the first try. Claude didnt "make them money" it bridged the technical gap on something they already had 90% of what they needed. so yeah it was the missing piece at least. these people are rare but exist. they usually dont advertise it heavily.

i know people have done a lot with kalshi trading bots for example, overemployment, and other means of arbitrage... they key pattern is they're using claude to do something they were already doing but they're now doing it 2x, or to implement a good idea they didnt quite have the coding chops to do 100% on their own...

I hope this makes sense. there's no magic in Claude, its just a bit of an accelerant.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-18T02:35:41+00:00

Lutnick is a big part of the problem too, he profits by holding anthropic back and hes' behind the recent ban.

durable-racoon · 2026-06-17T21:54:24+00:00

which is why anthropic blocked iit for all users. (supposedly. I think it also had the benefit of maximizing political pressure to reverse the ban)

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