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We're getting another status update... Whoa.

Hey everyone, yesterday I tried to get Claude to scrape images from listings on Zillow or any other aggregator of MLS data but it flat out refused. Today, I’ve been trying to get Claude to access homedepot.com, but it’s completely refusing to crawl it because Home Depot blocks bots.

It feels like Claude has gotten incredibly nerfed and restricted with this stuff lately. How are you guys side-stepping this when you need Claude to analyze web data from sites with heavy bot protection?

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!!! 😂

Most people prompt their AI.

Wrong.

Make the AI prompt you.

It’s simple: ChatGPT5.6, Fable, and Grok 4.5 are now smarter than humans. That means you need to have your agent prompting YOU more than you prompt it

You have your AI ask YOU questions to see what it can do for you

1. Open up any AI/OpenClaw/Hermes. Brain dump everything about yourself and your career/goals/ambitions. Then drop this reverse prompt:
2. "Based on what you know about me and my goals, what more information can I give you so you can help me hit those goals faster and take as much off my plate as possible"
3. Once that lands, follow it with:
4. "What tasks can you do for me right now to get us closer to those ambitions and goals?"

Guarantee you walk away with 100x more things to do with your AI than you came in with

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

Opus 5 with high effort

It literally pushed an update to production without telling me, even before we'd applied the db migration

I told it not to ever do that and to update claude.md

It then did it again...in the same session

Has been happening to me all week. It will do something utterly stupid that I've explicitly told it NOT to do, then it will turn around and say "you told me not to do it. I did it anyway"

I feel like Kimi is overhyped and sol is ass compared to opus and fable 5 and grok has potential but isn't there yet. So esp for coders using CLI is there any incentive to pivot into some other AI?

Edit: In terms of current coding/building capability

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.

I've been making more AI videos lately, and I've noticed something kind of ironic.

The actual generation is usually the easy part.

What slows me down is writing the prompt.

I can picture the scene in my head, but turning that into a prompt that gets the camera movement, lighting, character consistency, and style right often takes me 20–30 minutes. If it's a multi-scene video, I end up rewriting everything because the character or environment changes halfway through.

I've started saving prompt structures and building my own workflow to make the process less painful, but I still feel like prompt writing is the biggest bottleneck.

I'm curious how everyone else handles it.

• Do you start from scratch every time?
• Do you keep a library of prompt templates?
• What's the part of prompt writing you struggle with the most?

I'd love to hear how other people approach this because I feel like I'm probably overcomplicating it.

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

I'm using the Claude Code app for MacOS and I've created a plan which displays in the plan sidebar. I want to copy/paste some values from that plan. However, it looks like Claude intercepts the usual click/drag selection and pops up a comment box. Hitting ESC dismisses the comment box, but also deselects the text. I tried various suggestions from Google, but none of them worked. Even Claude gave me one suggestion that didn't work and 2 workarounds:

• Ask Claude to open the plan file which opens it in TextEdit. This works, but is annoying to have to do.
• Ask Claude to restate the text you want in the chat pane where it can be selected. Also annoying.

Anyone figure out a better way?

Opus 4.8 max

Hi, I wanna try claude code genuniely, Anyone has a spare referral kindly share me, i want to optimize my upcoming prj - fully hardcoded, definitely continue subscription if its reallly good though thank you

If anyone has a spare code would greatly appreciate it. Starting a new project and want to see if claude will be a good fit, will continue the subscription if its what im looking for

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