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

burn 50000  # burn 50,000 tokens

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).

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

• 📈 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.

"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"

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

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.

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