The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
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Leaked audio from an Accenture meeting, reported by 404 Media, reveals the company's internal data on AI token consumption: non-engineers are the primary drivers, not engineers. A specific culprit: converting PDFs to images and then to markdown files. The finding illustrates how everyday document workflows can meaningfully impact language model expenses.
Source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/pdfs-are-terrible/#a...
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