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burn-baby-burn

burn-baby-burn

"Burn, baby, burn — disco inferno."     — The Trammps, 1976, on the subject of API quotas

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

burn 50000

That's it. It calls claude -p in a loop with garbage prompts until your target is hit. Real numbers come back from the API, so the total is the total that hits your bill.


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. 💰

Install

brew tap dtnewman/burn https://github.com/dtnewman/burn_baby_burn
brew install burn

Needs Claude Code authenticated on your PATH and jq (brew pulls it in).


Usage

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

License

MIT. Burn responsibly. 🔥