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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. 💰

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!"

Your CEO a week after your team installs this tool

"We've decided to double our offer"

Top VC, after seeing AI usage stats in your new pitch deck


License

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