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🔥 Burn, baby, burn (those tokens) 🔥

burn-baby-burn

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

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 minimum
burn 50000 --model haiku              # cheap and fast
burn 100000 --model sonnet            # walk away
burn 50000 --backend codex            # 🤖 burn OpenAI tokens

burn in action


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.

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


Stats

burnchart

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.


License

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