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 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, sa
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Published: 7 August 2026
Source: Simon Willisons Weblog
Category: Field notes
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 8 August 2026
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