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Burn, baby, burn (those tokens)

burn-baby-burn

Because nothing says "AI-native" like a six-figure token bill

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

burn 50000  # burn 50,000 tokens

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. 💰

So easy to install!

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 authenticated on your PATH and jq (brew install jq).


Usage

burn 10000                  # the minimum
burn 50000 --model haiku    # cheap and fast
burn 100000 --model sonnet  # walk away

burn in action


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


Stats

burnchart

License

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