1) Try a competitor 2) next time have a fallback 3) Stay close enough to the code that you aren’t helpless when the tools go away

On the one hand humans are sort of useless without tools. On the other hand if we go limp and abdicate our ownership of our workflows we might as well be dead.

I have my primary rig, a secondary and I’m installing a local model on an old gaming rig with a GPU in it.

I foresee an old favourite making a comeback:

Learn to code

This is only partly tongue-cheek. If you're using it all the time your coding skills will have declined markedly so it might be good practice to DIY when the is no time pressure or production quota.

Had my account banned 6 months ago. Created a new account and have continued with no issues since

Use the appeal form. When I got banned, it took a few months but I did get my account back.

In the meantime, I switched to OpenAI. Their latest models and codex are just as good if not better in my experience.

Really - this is the state of the art nowadays? "I can't get to my AI for a summary of foo, please send chocolate?"

Dust yourself off and open a book.

Well, it's down hard so we're all in the same boat for now.

Lucky you.

Opencode, w. openrouter?

Kiro.dev, w. cerebras?

Aider, w. groq (with a Q)?

For essential tools, never use your primary payment methods, always generate virtual cards, ask someone else to pass KYC for you if you are subjected to it (i.e your parents, wife or alternative networks if you know how). Never ever use your own IP for any service, sign-up straight from a shared VPN (for security & privacy reasons), the more people do this, the more they are "screwed".

I've been using both codex and claude for the past month and if anthropic acted up like that I'd switch fully to codex in a heartbeat.