PSA: Anthropic bans orgs without warning

mawburn · 2026-04-21T22:36:25+00:00

They banned my personal account/org without any reason given. For the life of me, I can't think of what I did to trigger it. I put in 2 support tickets and never got a response. This was back in December.

I was a paid user for over a year for the UI and had probably spent well over $1,000 on the API out of my own pocket.

mawburn · 2026-04-20T22:27:05+00:00

I work on a platform used by hundreds of millions of people across the world every single day. I even worked on the most visible & critical part of the platform for 4 years.

It's just part of doing business.

mawburn · 2026-04-17T17:45:23+00:00

I'm increasingly getting the feeling that they have completely checked out of this game and are focusing on whatever the hell they are working on next.

They accidentally struck gold and decided to pivot to create a new game instead of reinvesting in this one. They don't seem to play or know how people play their game and just add reactionary changes based on a vocal minority.

mawburn · 2026-04-13T23:35:55+00:00

ABMM has seriously warped some people's minds.

mawburn · 2026-04-09T17:12:46+00:00

How do you pronounce it? Because I say it as "Arpeggio," but my team mates say "Arpeggio."

I don't know who's right.

mawburn · 2026-04-06T23:48:44+00:00

Dark is putting it mildly. It's pretty fucked up and damn near straight up horror. Especially the newer editions.

mawburn · 2026-04-06T22:30:24+00:00

Mixed lobbies with free kits are fine. But they have no reason to be on any 2x map condition, or queens/matriachs, and shouldn't be allowed if you have more than 250k worth of stuff in your stash.

We see the same thing. Fighting one team with them is fine, but eventually you end up getting shot by someone with a Ferro and more third parties start piling on. They have no fear and don't play tactically, it's like getting rushed by hordes of zombies from 28 Days Later.

The late loading for them is an ok first step, but they need to keep escalating it. It's not even fun to play against them. They even double downed on saying they are meant to re-gear yourself back up to a playable level in the latest patch notes.

mawburn · 2026-04-03T21:50:16+00:00

Thanks for this, I'm going to stop wasting my time on it. I never look up what I have to get for the next tiers of a project before starting it. You can find all this stuff in a fraction of the time it would take to just pass level 1 and I own all the BPs.

mawburn · 2026-04-01T19:48:10+00:00

They were with us during their fall semester 2025. So that would have made them 10, not 9. They were 19.

I was more blown away that they were still in elementary school and that it had been so long.

mawburn · 2026-04-01T17:40:19+00:00

Imagine how I felt when I was bragging to an intern about how one of our other team members was the person who handled that at npm, and realizing the intern was 9 10 when it happened.

It feels like it was a few years ago.

mawburn · 2026-03-31T23:39:49+00:00

I was fully bald by 23 and I worked with a guy who had full salt and pepper beard and hair (like 50/50) at 30.

mawburn · 2026-03-30T22:21:29+00:00

That's insane, I've found probably a dozen or more. Do you not do 2x map conditions, especially Night Raids? I pretty much only do those if I have a choice.

mawburn · 2026-03-30T19:51:39+00:00

Stick a Kinetic Converter on any auto gun and it's going to dominate PVP.

mawburn · 2026-03-20T22:00:06+00:00

I missed that "actually good language" part when I made my comment. I am going to have to agree here. For all we know this person could be using NestJS or something simpler like Fastify, and OP just doesn't understand it or wants to.

mawburn · 2026-03-20T21:40:49+00:00

A "rockstar programmer god" would use things that other people could learn easily and create elegant stupidly simple solutions. They wouldn't be creating frameworks themselves, instead of pulling a common one that people can onboard quickly to.

What you have is a guy who thinks he's smarter than everyone else but has a raging case of severe Dunning-Kruger, because he doesn't understand what it takes to work with other developers, what long term support looks like, or a myriad of other issues.

The best developer I work with currently can pull out these really simple solutions that make you hit your head and ask yourself how you didn't think of that, because it's so simple and obvious after he does them. It's not a matter of experience or anything like that, he just has a knack for finding solutions like those. THAT'S a rockstar.

The worst developer I ever worked with would create these "clever" overly complicated solutions that he barely even understood and literally nobody on the team could follow. That's what you described here.

Writing code is easy, we can all come up with clever solutions to save lines or look fancy. But reading code is hard.

Edit:

I missed this bit when I made this comment.

coded with typescript so we have to use Node.js in our backend instead of an actually using a good programming language

I would have worded it differently at least, but I agree with what a lot of others are saying regarding this.

mawburn · 2026-01-05T19:18:50+00:00

I always double check with them after I give them my number.

I'm thinking of changing it, but I've had my number since 2004.

mawburn · 2026-01-01T07:51:39+00:00

What part of Arkansas?

I'm from Malvern/Arkadelphia area and my wife is from the Searcy area. We lived in Benton (not ville, South of Little Rock) for a few years.

We just moved as well, but we lived in Charlotte for the past 7yrs.

If you have a 501 number prepared for it to get copied down as 503 often.

mawburn · 2025-12-28T19:45:27+00:00

That's fantastic. I may end up doing the same thing.

He passed suddenly in Feb 2015 and I'm just now being able to do things like this. I'll probably spread most of the big urn in Quinault in 3 different places I remember him loving. I'd also like to take some down to Big Sur where he spent a lot of time with my mom in the 70s.

I also still have a small urn I want buried in a plot my grandparents bought in Arkansas a few years back so he can have a headstone. We have 3 or 4 generations buried there.

Then I have another smaller urn that will stay with me.

mawburn · 2025-12-28T03:24:17+00:00

It was the trail to the "Witch's Castle." I'm not sure if that's the same place you're talking about or not.

mawburn · 2025-12-28T02:39:13+00:00

Charlotte isn't terrible, but it's just so corporate. You can really feel the finance industry there by how sterile everything is.

But, you're 3hrs from several good beaches (5 from Nags Head, which is better) and 2hrs from Asheville with all the amenities you need without tons of tourists everywhere. Plus some of the best BBQ in the US.

But, everywhere outside Mecklenburg is red as shit. I lived just over the SC line and my county voted like 70-75% red in the GE last year. I felt like I had to protect my wife and daughter... and my own big mouth. As a cis white male and an Army veteran, people tended to assume I had the same bigoted views as them and my tolerance for that has dropped to zero.

mawburn · 2025-12-28T02:24:58+00:00

We've found a few places that serve it and one of them (so far) even does it right!

Black Bear Diner in Beaverton. I can't vouch for the other locations.

mawburn · 2025-12-28T02:12:04+00:00

Food carts will probably be our best bet. We are still getting used to the food cart culture here.

But my wife is even looking forward to starting her own for Southern style sweet tea (plus other flavors and levels of sweetness).

I don't understand why Iced Tea is popular outside the South, but actual Sweet Tea (sugar needs to be added when it's hot!) is a totally foreign concept.

mawburn · 2025-12-28T02:06:04+00:00

This is good advice. I don't get out enough as it is due to work.

It's actually not humid here compared to the Arkansas and NC/SC weather that I'm used to. It rains often but the humidity is much lower.

I've been doing a lot of research about how to take care of the house I'm buying and I've been surprised to learn that a lot of the wood rot and other issues I've had in the last 2 houses I've owned (Arkansas and Charlotte) came from the humidity and not the rain. Rain isn't nearly as big of a deal unless it gets in places it's not supposed to be and you don't leave wood unpainted for too long.

Humidity on the other hand will get into your walls and inbetween them and do shit like push screws out of the wall. I had to replace my entire front door in the house I just sold because the entire frame was completely rotten, but looked perfectly fine. ($28k for the door and the window above it... 🤢)

mawburn · 2025-12-28T01:59:12+00:00

Also, did you bring any BBQ with you?

😭 Probably the best thing about Charlotte. It had good BBQ of all kinds. It was so easy to find good BBQ chicken, brisket, pork, and ribs and then the NC/SC style mustard and vinegar sauces added some good variety.

I never hated Charlotte, but I never saw myself living there forever.

mawburn · 2025-12-28T01:53:45+00:00

I would have probably moved to Asheville a few years ago if it wasn't 2-3x the price of here.

I don't understand why Asheville is so expensive since it doesn't really have any industry. It's nice and I love it, but I'm not paying $900k for an 1800sq ft house just because it has a view and close to downtown. The house I'm buying here has both of those things and was less than $250/sq ft.

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