{
  "id": 17509,
  "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/pdfs-are-terrible",
  "title": "The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-07T16:18:51.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-08T05:10:34.355Z",
  "source_slug": "x-simon-willisons-weblog",
  "source_name": "Simon Willisons Weblog",
  "source_homepage": "https://simonwillison.net",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17509",
  "original_url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/pdfs-are-terrible",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}