SMRTR ProgrammingJun 22, 2026lobste.rs

burn-baby-burn: Be the most productive engineer on your team

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This is a satirical open-source tool that intentionally burns through Claude Code or Codex API tokens to game internal AI usage metrics. The joke premise: inflate your team's token consumption to impress CEOs, top leaderboards, pad OKRs, and justify bigger AI budgets. It's a sharp parody of how companies measure AI productivity by spend rather than actual output.

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