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Show HN: Burn, Baby, Burn — Intentional Token Burning Tool for Claude Code and Codex Hits 124 Points
A bash one-liner tool that deliberately burns Claude Code or Codex tokens 'to be the most productive engineer on your team' hit 124 points and 28 comments on HN. While satirical, the tool reflects growing practitioner awareness (and frustration) with the emerging corporate dynamic where AI usage metrics are becoming performance proxies — the same pattern behind Amazon's 'tokenmaxxing' phenomenon where workers make up tasks to hit AI usage quotas.
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