The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling to Stop Spending on AI
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- 2026-08-08 07:15:56
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- Blog / Newsletter2026-08-08 07:15:53The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
<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
- Hacker News2026-08-08 07:15:49The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling to Stop Spending on AI