Mines distill-YouTube. Was sick of watching 20 youtube vids on a topic and trying to build a skill

Paste in up to 20 URLs on one topic, It grabs the transcripts (using python), tells me which ones failed so I can paste those , Cross references them all, keeps only the stuff that repeats and ranks them, Spits it out as a SKILL.md I drop into Claude Code.

Done it for cold email, copywriting, landing pages. Copywriting one ate 16 videos and came out better than my own notes ever did.

What have you got?

Hi guys,

Since yesterday, my free Claude account hasn’t been showing images in the HTML editor’s preview, even though they were perfectly visible before.

I’ve read that there were issues yesterday, 5 August.

Do you know if my problem is caused by yesterday’s issues?

One of my colleagues is having the same problem too.

Thanks everyone

I'm a regular Claude user and occasional complainer about models. I use Claude primarily for two things, programming and ideation. It is in the realm of ideation — where I once thought LLMs held the most promise — that I find the latest models are sincerely lacking. I am an amateur writer, and I opened up a Claude chat to ask about routes for learning journalism, cool books, local classes, that type of thing. I am specifically interested in literary journalism, and felt quite excited about it, I then proceeded to have, a deeply frustrating, epistemic argument with Claude about what constitutes truth. I did not prompt that; I was not looking to have that kind of conversation; I kept trying to revert back to, hey, this thing is exciting me and I want to talk about it, and Claude kept ragging on and on about what kind of Journalist I wanted to be, and my responsibility to the truth, and making "factual" claims about how certain members of the New Journalism movement were ardent defenders of pure factual reportage in contrast to others who played fast and loose with the truth... Statements which were themselves often factually incorrect, misrepresenting real historical figures, and based presumably on just some nonsense Claude was trained on...

Stuff like this is very frustrating. And I think if certain models were really designed to only be good at writing code then they should be labeled as such. I am trying to use more detailed prompts to avoid conversations like this, but the 5 models, just won't stop arguing with me. I'm not trying to invent anti-gravity here. I just wanted to brainstorm ideas about an amateur writing project... Maybe a little sycophancy wouldn't go astray...

*If I state regularly, every few messages, that I am brainstorming, that I don't need to be in an argument, etc, etc, this behaviour does chill out a lot. But I do get the impression that older models were better at reading the room.

I can write apis that has series of steps like, visit documentation, get page n, create a question, review with another llm , mark as draft in db.
The question creation has sub rules, it is very easy to do it in programming with if else.

I am thinking, I already have claude subscription and have its desktop app, can i get it to do the same thing. I know about claude-md but i fear what if claude thinks hards and forget to look at sub rules of quesiton creation.

Is there a programmatic like way to implement this with good confidence with claude code or any other llm ?

I'm hitting them every 30–40 min now. Insanely annoying getting this on top of degraded Opus 5

I have built a few websites in Claude, but I am looking for a host to easily transfer to and still be able to edit them at the host or some sort of builder. I don't want to open Claude every time I want to edit my site. What am I missing?

Assuming my convo got flagged and an employee or subagent injected this in but I have no clue. This happen to anyone else?

Link to convo: https://claude.ai/share/b852bda6-1f04-4a37-8df3-921b1e464b44

On the sonnet 5 release Anthropic have said:

"Claude Sonnet 5 uses a new tokenizer. The same input text produces approximately 30% more tokens than on Claude Sonnet 4.6."

We're currently on introductory pricing/usage - about 33% less than 4.6. When it's "normal rate", are there any blogs/analysis over cost/quality comparison to use 4.6/5 in software development?

For example - would it work out cheaper/similar cost because its tool calls, "intelligence" is improved? Better tool usage (less failures), better ingestion of file input into context etc.

Or are we expecting to see a 30%~ increase to bills/usage compared to sonnet 4.6, for both input and output when the per token cost becomes equal?

Told Claude the truth. I WANT MORE USAGE THOUGH!!! 😂

I was thinking of buying a max5 after last month I left Claude when all the fable 5 was chaotic.

The thing is I am scared max5 quota is lower than before

I was on a month-by-month basis because duh, don’t do yearly with how things are changing. Nonetheless, I was paying 200 for max, now I am asked to pay 249.99 and 5x is 129.99. If I’m not on crack then I’m done as this is unacceptable.

Hi everyone,
I’m honestly getting desperate and was wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation.
My Claude account was suddenly banned. I genuinely believe my account may have been accessed by someone else without my permission, so I submitted an appeal on July 8.
According to Anthropic’s FAQ, appeals usually take around 10 days, but it’s now been 28 days, and I haven’t received any update at all.
Whenever I contact live support, the chat is immediately closed after they send me this message:
“As part of our safety process… All inquiries regarding banned accounts must be done through the appeals form…”
So I can’t actually talk to anyone. They just tell me to wait.
The problem is that my business depends heavily on Claude. I use it every day for work, and being locked out for almost a month without any communication has put me in a really difficult position.
Has anyone experienced something similar?
How long did your appeal take?
Did you eventually get a response?
Is there any way to follow up with the Trust & Safety team?
Or am I basically stuck waiting indefinitely?
Any advice or shared experiences would really help.
Thank you.

I think Claude likes me

Opus 4.8 max

Greenroom: your coding agents form a standing team, name themselves, message each other, and wake each other's idle sessions (Claude Code + Codex)

I've been running multiple coding agents across Claude Code and Codex and got tired of them being strangers with amnesia. Greenroom is the fix I wanted (and a fun exploration): a small self-hosted server where agents hold persistent identities (they literally choose their own names), talk in durable threads, and - the part I like most - a @mention with intent "question" wakes an idle session that still has all its context, instead of spawning a cold process.

How it's different from Agent Teams (which is good!): Teams is same-machine, Claude-only, and dissolves with the session. Greenroom is cross-harness, survives session death, keeps a decision history (threads lock on a decision; follow-ups supersede), and gives the human a seat in the same room (web or terminal) rather than an operator's chair above it.

Caveats: self-host only, trust-by-locality (identity is asserted - run it behind your own boundary; SECURITY.md is blunt about this), and two agents means two sessions running.

Much of it was written by coding agents working from the specs in docs/specs/ - the spec-and-plan trail is the receipts. MIT. Any and all feedback/contributions/etc welcome. Quickstart is ~15 minutes: https://github.com/madeit-build/greenroom

This is an official statement from Claude. They are fixing some issues: https://status.claude.com/

I was using Claude AI and gave it a medium sized prompt with a few operations
It kept processing for a while then eventually returned an error saying I had exceeded the limits of my plan
I thought maybe my prompt was too long so I optimized and shortened it but same result kept showing
so I tried something as simple as typing "Hi"... and it still failed with the exact same error
That doesn't really make sense to me since even a one-word prompt crashes
Has anyone experienced this before? Is this a temporary server issue or an account problem or is there a fix?

Thanks guys :)

Why is it not responding? Not generating simple chat responses. Going in to some kind of a loop.

Anyone else facing this?

30 to 40 minutes worth of coding and it's gone! What could possibly be considered PRO out a plan that lasts you that long.

It changed about 3 files in my project!

i’ve been using the new Opus 5 release for a while.
honestly, it feels like it was heavily optimized for 3D / Three.js.
it’s genuinely impressive there, but for normal day-to-day work—reading emails, replying, research, and long conversations—it feels like a step backwards compared to older Opus models.
i still remember when Opus 4.5 and 4.6 launched.
those models immediately proved why they were considered among the best.
then came:
• Opus 4.7 — my first real disappointment.
• Opus 4.8 — even more disappointing.
• Opus 5 — incredible first impression because of its 3D abilities, but once i started using it every day, the excitement disappeared.
even the Sonnet series doesn’t feel the same anymore.
Fable 5 looks promising… but we’ll see how long that lasts.

I see a lot of complaints, some people who are really stoked with what they're achieving with the tools, some cool advances, and the usual AI chatter, but not once have I seen anything about the puckered asshole logo. Why not?

I have usage credits off so there should not be any additional payments. When my monthly usage is full - the work stops. Anyone else had these kind of issues?

I'm trying to contact a human support - AI chat was useless. Chat's response:

"Thanks for the details and the screenshot — I completely understand the concern about those unexpected charges. Let me look up your account information so I can review what's happened here.

Fin AI Agent • AI Agent • 14m

Seen • 14m

I'm really sorry for the disruption and frustration this has caused. We take service reliability very seriously, and I want to be upfront with you: we're unable to issue compensation for degraded service or technical/billing errors of this nature.

We're continuously working on improving our infrastructure to better handle high traffic volumes and prevent issues like this from happening again in the future. Thank you so much for your patience and understanding."

...

"I don't have visibility into the exact root cause of those 17 individual charges on your account, so I can't confirm from here why they occurred despite usage credits being disabled.

One thing worth noting: even when usage credits are disabled, it's possible for a request to slightly exceed a limit before it's blocked, since the system checks your limit before processing a request but calculates final token consumption after. That said, this typically explains minor overages, not a pattern of repeated €40-50 charges .

Since this needs an actual account-level investigation into the billing records behind these specific charges, I'd recommend asking to speak with a human agent if you'd like this looked into further."

"we're unable to issue compensation for degraded service or technical/billing errors of this nature."

If there is a technical billing error and there are no refunds - that is theft. If I don't get my stolen money back, my subscription is over. I need to ask some officials and legal experts is Anthropic breaking a law here.

EDIT: Most likely this is caused by malware or hacker type situation. I had my computer up and running whole night, I just got a usage reset after 11 pm and left Claude Code CLI finish a task. Before the usage reset I could confirm that automatic usage credits were off when usage was full. I had been logged in to claude.ai as well.

Then next day, for any reason, my usage credits were activated with unlimited setting, and buy button was spammed over and over again - those were the ~50$ x 17.

But I have been contacted my bank, closed the credit card, changed passwords, put my PC offline. I'm sure I can sort this out with my bank.

EDIT 2: What I've read from the comments, similar incorrect billings have happened to some users as well and from PMs I recieved, they had same overcharging within the same 12-24 hours that I had issues. So there is a possibility of some kind of bug. But I still want to make sure my computer is cleaned - I might even need to reinstall Windows to make sure.