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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? We grant anonymity and eternal glory. Post it with #TokenBurnIndex or send it via the calculator's share button — the best cases enter the permanent collection.