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Show HN: Burn, baby, burn (those tokens)

https://github.com/dtnewman/burn-baby-burn
112•dtnewman•1d ago

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hootz•1d ago
Finally we can beat the usage metrics goal!
dtnewman•1d ago
And you'll be such a productive engineer!
dtnewman•1d ago
Creator here.

Are you a startup looking to show investors your hefty AI budget? Are you an engineer trying to top the AI token leaderboard? Wanna show your friends how "AI Native" you are? Look no further, I created this for you.

ehxor•20h ago
Hey you invalidated my start-up idea! ;)

https://robintoken.dev/

rtgfhyuj•12h ago
is this satire?
ehxor•7h ago
Yes
throwburn202605•11h ago
If the aim is to burn tokens in a plausible manner why not go one step further, without getting users accounts banned, use those tokens as a distributed distillation effort.

Publish all the generated content into a data source, think open crawl, so open sourced models (open training not just weights) could use it as input.

fcpguru•1d ago
you laugh but this is so real. executives love metrics. I do feel like I need to keep the prompts going.
photonair•22h ago
Token-maxxing is a silly idea that does not measure true productivity and quality. I can easily burn through tokens and not produce anything useful.
dtnewman•22h ago
> Token-maxxing is a silly idea

Well I guess you also thing that getting a job promotion is a silly idea? /s

hughw•19h ago
Hear hear
Sharlin•22h ago
Never would I ever have imagined a world where companies are going all in on the idea of measuring productivity by how much an employee is able to spend company money. Try to explain this to a time traveler from 2020. What a time to be alive.
gblargg•12h ago
An update to the mouse jiggler.
cube00•22h ago
Token measured productivity is the KLOC of the AI world

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25225814

erelong•22h ago
labor theory of value: AI edition
throwatdem12311•22h ago
Absolutely incredible, gonna kee this on my back burner for when my boss inevitably gets the tokenmaxxing mind virus.
lbrito•21h ago
Beautiful
boundless88•20h ago
This idea is really innovative and interesting.
random__duck•17h ago
Marketing material includes legendary promises such as:

> Burning token like there's no context window.

kevinh456•16h ago
Burn baby burn. Token inferno.
krschn•15h ago
It’s a strange time ,some people are trying to save tokens to reduce costs, while in other places, employees are intentionally burning more tokens for performance evaluations.
wewewedxfgdf•15h ago
Should be making pelicans in hats riding unicorns.
localhoster•11h ago
Ok so in all honesty I have it a try. I think you are burning "input tokens" rather than output ones, which fill your usage quicker.

Suggestion to improve? :praying_hands:

usplusAI•5h ago
I can do this with KiloCode and actually generate stuff. I burned 680 M tokens last weekend building over a 48 hr period on KiloCode with Grok Code First(free until 15th). Once I uploaded into replit, there was a lot of stubs lets just say and truncated code and things to clean. But it built something and did a hefty token burn in the process.
filmpalace•4h ago
This is one of the funniest things I've seen on HN. This is actually becoming useful where I work haha :) I think your next natural move should be to make a who-burned-it-baby version for management to audit and figure out who's been burning tokens and ironically use a ton of tokens to do that :D

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