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c/programmer_humor · by cm0002@mander.xyz · 53d

A bash script to automatically burn LLM tokens, thus massively increasing your productivity and hireability

https://github.com/dtnewman/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.

Be the most productive engineer on your team 🚀🚀🚀!

367 points · 11 comments · view on lemmy.world

11 Comments

HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social · 101 pts · 53d (6 replies)

Disgusted by the 1m limit. How's a person supposed to burn money with baby bumpers like this?

🔥🔥🔥 HOLD ON A SECOND 🔥🔥🔥

You just asked to burn more than 1,000,000 tokens.

Friendly reminder: THIS REPO IS A JOKE. It is a satirical bash script that lights real money on fire to inflate vanity metrics. There is no business reason to run it. The README is sarcasm. The "enterprise version" is not real. Yes, burning lots of tokens might impress your manager, but I'm not enough of a nihilist to be the actual mechanism enabling that.

Refusing to proceed. Go touch grass. 🌱

AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev · 71 pts · 53d (1 reply)

With a million tokens you can get it to rewrite the script to remove this guardrail. OMG we've reached the singularity!!

HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social · 19 pts · 53d

Yeah, but with 999,999 tokens all we get is the README.

degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io · 40 pts · 53d (2 replies)
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HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social · 37 pts · 53d (1 reply)

You must earn that "senior dev" money, huh?

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 52d

Typical senior dev, spoiling the vibe coding purity by actually hand coding some shell scripting.

eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 53d

I'm accepting token donations if you want to look good with your boss

DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 53d

Get mogged and tokenpilled.

criticon@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 53d

I just ask it do create some program to do some automation and ask it to move a button from one place to another or add some additional functions with the instruction to rewrite the code from scratch

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 52d

Can't I just ask it for the seahorse emoji once in a while and achieve the same result or something...

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 48d
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dwt@feddit.org · 1 pts · 49d

Goodhart lässt grüßen

SatyrSack@quokk.au · -3 pts · 52d

Slop