No one could have predicted

Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse:

According to leaked internal audio reported by 404 Media (1), consulting giant Accenture has begun discouraging employees from using AI for routine tasks, including turning PDFs into presentation slides, as it looks to curb soaring token costs. A token is the smallest unit of data that a large-language model can process at a time, and pricing depends on token consumption.

"We're seeing from some of the data internally at least that it's actually not our engineers that are driving the token consumption," Justice Kwak, Accenture's agentic AI strategy lead, said during the meeting. "It's a lot of the non-engineers that are doing some of those behaviors."

Hang on — you mean I was right about what I needed to do my own job? That’s absurd.