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cactusplant7374yesterday at 8:21 PM1 replyview on HN

> and it almost earned me an OpenAI ban

Were you flagged for a cybersecurity violation?


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gibspauldingyesterday at 8:33 PM

> Well, it turned out that at some time during spec investigation, Claude needed to understand authenticity verification which is a paid feature. With a context full of reverse engineering tools it cracked WinRAR and bypassed product registration, then dutifully documented its crimes in the spec. The docs, when viewed, triggered OpenAI’s alarms and stopped it dead in its tracks. I squashed this out of the git history, and decided not to implement the feature at all.

You can draw your own conclusions as to what this says about the state of agentic development.