The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from June 24th: “We’re seeing from some of the data internally at least that it’s actually not our engineers that are driving the token consumption. It’s a lot of the non-engineers that are doing some of those behaviors [...] you were talking about,” Justice Kwak, Accenture’s agentic AI strategy lead, ✦ AI generated
Responding to Henderson, Kwak confirms that this PDF-to-markdown behavior is exactly what Accenture's own data shows.
Justice Kwak: That's when Kwak says that's what Accenture's own data shows.
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Stuart Henderson jokes that one of the big token chewers is turning PDFs into markdown files, and notes he's learning that's a major driver of consumption.
Stuart Henderson: I'm learning that's one of the big token chewers. Turning PDFs into markdown: is that right?
Justice Kwak reports that Accenture's internal data shows non-engineers, not engineers, are the ones driving token consumption through certain AI behaviors.
Justice Kwak: We're seeing from some of the data internally at least that it's actually not our engineers that are driving the token consumption. It's a lot of the non-engineers that are doing some of those behaviors [...] you were talking about.