here come the normies

Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Across the industry Accenture is seeing “soaring token spend,” according to the audio.

To consider:

1. There is a scenario where things like Copilot finally works, and knowledge workers finally start using Cowork – and in that world, your token budget will bring your company down. So far, there are mixed reports on the business outcomes of AI, at least at the executive level.
2. Re: that, maybe it’s good that normies hate AI.
3. Those slides should have just stayed PDFs in the first place.

🔗 The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI