🔥 Burn, baby, burn (those tokens) 🔥

Because nothing gets you promoted faster than a six-figure token bill

A bash one-liner that burns Claude Code or Codex tokens on purpose.

burn 50000  # burn 50,000 tokens

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Install and run in 20 seconds

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dtnewman/burn-baby-burn/main/install.sh | bash

Drops burn into ~/.local/bin — no sudo, no Homebrew tap. Needs Claude Code or Codex authenticated on your PATH, plus jq (brew install jq).

Usage

burn 10000                            # the Claude minimum
burn 50000 --model haiku              # cheap and fast
burn 100000 --model sonnet            # walk away
burn 13000 --backend codex            # the Codex minimum
burn 50000 --backend codex            # 🤖 burn OpenAI tokens

Run burn with no arguments to open the TUI. When you select OpenAI Codex and press IGNITE, the TUI launches the default browser OAuth flow if Codex is not already connected. You can also use the AUTH row to recheck or sign in manually, or run codex login before opening burn. The TUI adjusts the minimum target automatically per backend.

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Features

• 📈 Make the CEO see how productive you are.
• 💸 Investors will see how AI-innovative your company is.
• 🏆 Top the internal Claude Code leaderboard.
• 📊 Pad your OKRs.
• 🦄 Justify next year's bigger AI budget.

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Reviews

"Wow, my engineering team is 5x more productive in just the last week!"

- (Possibly) your CEO, a week after your team installs this tool

"We've decided to double our offer"

- (Possibly) a famous VC, after seeing AI usage stats in your new pitch deck

"Wow, this promotion that I got was nice"

- You, just a few months after first using this tool

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Stats

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Enterprise version

We are currently working on a paid enterprise-ready version, which will have:

• 4x burn rate
• SSO/SAML Support
• Role-Based Burn Access

Please contact us if you are interested.

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License

MIT (but it's all vibe-coded so who really knows who owns it?). Burn responsibly. 🔥