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Inside Accenture, it is not the engineers driving token consumption — it's largely the non-engineers engaging in token-hungry behaviors.
Justice Kwak reports that Accenture's internal data shows non-engineers, not engineers, are the ones driving token consumption through certain AI behaviors. ✦ AI generated
Justice Kwak · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-07 · original ↗
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.
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- ·Internal Accenture data shows non-engineers, not engineers, drive token consumption
- ·Non-engineers engaged in token-hungry AI behaviors
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