This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Nevrr forget, Accenture used to be Arthur Anderson, of Enron infamy. They deserve any financial ruin they get, IMO.
Sheeit thanks for the reminder (and trip down memory lane)
Fuck AA
Accenture is a technology consulting company. Nobody needs technology consultants with AIs around, because AIs are more capable, much faster, and much cheaper than almost all consultants. Their standard hourly rates are typically in the same ballpark as AIs' highest subscription monthly rates.
Therefore, as their sales start drying up, Accenture is starting to save money wherever it can before it needs to start firing people.
In my company some of the top users spend over $3000/m. $29 is maybe 30 mins - 1 hour continuous running for a *medium" sized model like Sonnet. Not sure about cheaper models.
I spent $200 in one session the other day, watching the clanker design, implement, and review the change. Still have no idea what I did but my name is on the commit
Sounds fulfilling.
/s
I hate it of course. I need to find an exit strategy
Don't pay the bill. They'll force you to quit before long.
Fair point, but not any less fulfilling than my day job already was, arguably maybe a little more fun to be spending the company's money on nonsense. My job pays my bills very adequately, that's normally the only fulfilling thing about it.
Interesting. Yeah, me and my coworkers spend about $1000 per month—so far. The bill keeps going up. One AI workshop thing they made us do spent $100 just in 1 session.
That's basically saying that they shouldn't use Claude at all.
Good.
I'm willing to bet that only a fraction of that spend was work task related.
If my productivity (and therefore my job) were measured not by results but by amount of tokens I use, you can bet I'm gonna burn tokens for absolutely everything during my work shift. Even if it's just asking the chatbot what time is it every second.
Exactly.
The $29 cap signals that per-seat AI budgets cannot yet cover agentic coding tools, which cost heavy users anywhere from $500 to $1,000 a month.
It may be so, but that tells me even if they wanted to use it for productive work, it'd still cost them about that much.
Silly Accenture, that's not the way to tokenmaxx.
Well duh? I doubt $29 get you anywhere at the moment and that nonsense is only going to get more expensive.
For now, that's not crazy. I have a company-provided api key and subscription. Now maybe they bumped me to the a $100/mo tier without telling me, but as far as I know the lowest tier keeps me in tokens heat about all month and I use it a lot. I switch over to API for a few hours per month and probably spend more in that time than my sub costs all month.
I spent about $2k developing a set of tools and AI orchestrates them for me, and I can add new tools to orchestrate as needed. Caveat: I do more production support and my teams do the production development work. We are all on subscription plans, but they do more hand development than I do.
Point being, you can easily spend >$1k/mo and me and several people on my teams did before we got subscriptions, but the subs give some AI assistance without going all-in on AI coding, which is the sweet spot IMO.
$29 is enough for one of them pro plans. That's plenty if you're not wasteful.
But do companies like Accenture get that subsidized plan at scale? At API rates that can easily be thousands of dollars.
The free tier might actually give more usage
o.O my budget can be requested up to $2k/month.
$29/month is like... not using it lol
It goes back to being a tool, not just the method. Still quite productive.
Amateurs.
I'm spending 4000$ per month.
