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TOKENBURN_INDEX

EXHIBIT HALL — PERMANENT COLLECTION

HALL OF SHAME

Legendary acts of token combustion. Costs are illustrative estimates at public list prices. Names withheld to protect the guilty.

THE BUTTON
I used 40,000 tokens to ask for a button color.
EST. TOKENS
40,000
EST. COST
$0.42
VERDICT
The button is still blue.
THE REFACTOR
My agent rewrote half the repo to rename a variable.
EST. TOKENS
1,200,000
EST. COST
$14.70
VERDICT
The variable is now camelCase. The budget is not.
THE MEETING
The AI summary of the meeting cost more than the meeting.
EST. TOKENS
380,000
EST. COST
$4.90
VERDICT
Key takeaway: there were no key takeaways.
THE GENTLEMAN
I said 'thank you' to the model 3,400 times this quarter.
EST. TOKENS
13,600
EST. COST
$0.19
VERDICT
Politeness has a unit price now. You're welcome.
THE COMMITTEE
Our multi-agent crew deliberated for 25 minutes.
EST. TOKENS
2,100,000
EST. COST
$27.30
VERDICT
Final answer: 'It depends.' Confidence: high.
THE TYPO
I pasted the entire codebase to fix a typo in the README.
EST. TOKENS
850,000
EST. COST
$2.55
VERDICT
Teh typo is fixed. A new one was introduced.
SUBMIT YOUR SHAME

Burned something spectacular? A five-figure token bill for a one-line answer? An agent that alphabetized your codebase? File it below — anonymity guaranteed, eternal glory optional. Prefer the public flogging? Post it with #TokenBurnIndex instead.