# Accenture 内部数据显示非工程师消耗大量 AI token，将 PDF 转 markdown 是主要消耗源，引发对 token 成本的关注

- 来源：Simon Willison
- 发布时间：2026-08-08 00:18
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- AIWatch 链接：https://aiwatch.icu/events/evt_01kzeh4rn9mgvqzxje27mjv0x9
- 原文链接：https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/pdfs-are-terrible/#atom-everything

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## AI 摘要

Accenture 内部数据显示非工程师消耗大量 AI token，将 PDF 转 markdown 是主要消耗源，引发对 token 成本的关注。

## 正文

7th August 2026 - Link Blog

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI (via) 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, said [...] Stuart Henderson, Accenture’s client group lead, interrupts. He jokes he hopes Kwak didn’t just convert a PDF into images and then into markdown files. “I’m learning that’s one of the big token chewers,” Henderson says. “Turning PDFs into markdown: is that right?” That’s when Kwak says that’s what Accenture’s own data shows.

Maybe if Accenture figure out that PDFs are a terrible medium for communicating information they'll be able to push that message out to the rest of the business world too!