待翻译：The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
AI 服务暂时不可用，以下为来源摘要，待恢复后补全翻译：<p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/">The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI</a></strong></p> There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from June 24th:</p> <blockquote> <p>“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, said [...]</p> <p>Stuart Henderson, Accenture’s client group lead, interrupts. He jokes he hopes Kwak didn’t just convert a PDF into images and then into markdown files. “I’m learning that’s one of the big token chewers,” Henderson says. “Turning PDFs into markdown: is that right?”</p> <p>That’s when Kwak says that’s what Accenture’s own data shows.</p> </blockquote> <p>Maybe if Accenture figure out that PDFs are a <em>terrible medium for communicating information</em> they'll be able to push that message out to the rest of the business world too! <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@404.media/video/7654962124053171470">@404.media on TikTok</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pdf">pdf</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/markdown">markdown</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-misuse">ai-misuse</a></p>
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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe 7th August 2026 - Link Blog The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI (via) 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, said [...] Stuart Henderson, Accenture’s client group lead, interrupts. He jokes he hopes Kwak didn’t just convert a PDF into images and then into markdown files. “I’m learning that’s one of the big token chewers,” Henderson says. “Turning PDFs into markdown: is that right?” That’s when Kwak says that’s what Accenture’s own data shows. Maybe if Accenture figure out that PDFs are a terrible medium for communicating information they'll be able to push that message out to the rest of the business world too! Recent articles One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 - 5th August 2026 New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging - 4th August 2026 Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) - 31st July 2026 This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 7th August 2026. pdf 41 markdown 34 ai 2,172 generative-ai 1,923 llms 1,890 ai-misuse 60 Monthly briefing Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments. Pay me to send you less! Sponsor & subscribe Disclosures Colophon © 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026