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 🚀🚀🚀!

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[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 102 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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 72 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago

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

[–] degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

while true; do burn 1000000; done

[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

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

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

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

[–] DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

Get mogged and tokenpilled.

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

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 points 1 month ago

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

[–] dwt@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Goodhart lässt grüßen

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au -3 points 1 month ago

Slop