Today I got banned by Anthropic.
I was trying to use my Claude Max subscription on pi. Sorry :(
I felt so sad.
I wanted was to use pi with Opus 4.6. Yes, I could use the API instead, but I can’t afford the cost for the amount of use I make.
Why didn’t I just use Claude Code? It probably would have worked well. In fact, it probably would have worked better than pi, because I would not have spent countless hours customizing every minimal aspect of my setup.
But then, would it be worth it?
I am a computer scientist. I use and craft software that lives in the soul of the computer. I am in this for the craft. I love the journey: building, designing, learning, and interacting with machines. And now I can talk to it and IT TALKS BACK. That still feels like a dream.
Unfortunately I don’t want to work with closed source software.
I customize my software.
My software is my craft.
My software is my life.