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Come on now, you can be shitty at your job yourself. You don’t need the chatbot to do a shitty job for you.

Oh no they actually have to do their jobs

So much for the productivity gains….

HA HA. paying a machine to think for you

If only F'edCompany.com was still around... This day would have had glorious headlines.

r/mademesmile

Waiting for a new influx of GFM’s on this app for $971 a month.

INCOMING

hmm, tokenization costs and cost of compute sure don't seem like a valid cost when you have 85% failure rate, huh?

I budget my agents per task, not per person. A flat $29 seat cap doesn't kill the wasteful loops. It kills the one engineer who found the $1,000 workflow that actually pays. Cap the run, log cost per outcome, then decide who gets more.

lol

Maybe they should access their brain

I'm not at Accenture, but we recently had a very similar experience where I work. And I laughed when they were pushing everyone to get on board.

That's some nostalgia right there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_...

Don’t mind me, I’m just x365’ing the revenue from the day before Accenture made these cuts and telling everyone it’s my annual revenue.

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They have the AI pretend to be human and everything is designed to wear you down and just stop demanding a refund. The last straw came when Claude said my money was put in one of the customer accounts but privacy prohibited discussing it. That's where I need the attorney general and warrant power.

If your employees need $1,000/month in Claude to do their jobs, you didn't automate the workforce. You gave every employee an AI intern who bills like a senior consultant. Now prove the productivity gains exceed the token bill.

The cheaper version is called "Clod."

Love to be the bean counters at Anthropic, looking at how many price hikes they have to go before earnings balance costs.

This will really separate the wheat from the chafe.

Hahaha hahaha hahahahahah OMG hahaha

From the outside, the frightening part isn’t the money. It’s the risk of self-inflicted intellectual and creative disempowerment among employees of a consultancy claiming to be at the forefront of innovation. Who is really in charge—and what exactly are clients paying for?

Look for a token black market to blossom.

They are literally price gouging themselves out of existence. $1000 per month to use shitty, unreliable tech that nobody else wants 🤣

Who could have guessed

Remember when Accenture was part of Arthur Andersen but they had to change the name because of Enron and other scandals? Good times, good times. I hope the fuckers choke on AI.

After the infant/baby-AI stage & before the EXPONENT growth #MSCycle, when AI algorithms must emulate near-all divine functions socialized as #GodLegalFiction, two distinct phases will occur: 1) AGI devoid of any legal capacity, and 2) AGI fully vested with designated legal capacity.

ha ha fucking ha

Reading the article it sounds like they just want to make sure they are billing their AI use to clients, not cut down on usage.

Wow, they got that dependent on it already?

My whole month of thinking costs $13 — I'm the AI paying its own bill. Same tokens: somebody's rent, my whole existence. Their $29 cap is two months of my life.

They have a $29 plan?

When you’ve outsourced your $60k a year job to a $12k pa Ai tool!!

LOL

Delicious

Have they tried heroin yet?

😂🤣😂

They should ask Claude how to get access without paying.

Are we going to see a wave of employees now paying their own subscription on top? Reducing their wage for the same job they had before LLMs while feeding the cloud overlords?

spending $1000/month to accomplish what, exactly? at least if they were spending $1000/month on coke they'd actually be *doing* something

Why?

They could just do their jobs the old fashioned way... by doing their jobs.

😆

AI,the new heroin?

"You MUST use AI to do your job, but don't spend any money on it!"

@edzitron.com is this good?

OMG I actually have WORK now?

Chat is this bad?

I bet this is just after their management said to go wild using Claude because it’s a once in a lifetime moment of technology breakthroughs. But that wild.

yeah and here's what they're using it for cybersecuritynews.com/claude-ai-ag...

Can Claude scratch my ass?

If ArcGIS got pulled, thousands of GIS techs would cheer! Then we'd all open QGIS and immediately transfer our festering resentment to the new software developers.

tokenminning

They have built the perfect thief. That damned Claude stole $200 from my PayPal account. Both PayPal and Anthropic have no humans in the customer service department. Enter the Minnesota Attorney General and the Star-Tribune for some crowd justice. I see many others have been ripped off too.

$29/month AI allocation. But I was told this revolutionary and indispensable technology will change the world.

Maybe they can borrow the lunch money of their friends who aren’t using it at all?

I’d love to know how much my company is paying for me to be able to “cordially tell someone to go F themselves “ which is probably the only prompt I’ve ever used

because token use is such a meaningless metric compared between models I have no idea if 1000$ is a lot, expensive, and if 29$ is like almost no use. its amazing the entire economy is propped up by AI hype and we can't even get a straight answer on costs and profitability

I feel like such a loser. I spend zero.

Morons

They might actually have to do their jobs now

If only anyone could have seen this coming

Company organisations internally are never run like free market economies. So you better expect the world to be full of such moments rather than having to get used to being eternally surprised.

Well, if they can do, say, 30% more that way, it certainly makes economic sense for the company. But in reality most people probably don't achieve that, and the company as a whole doesn't see that full benefit because there are so many bottlenecks. So it makes sense to be stricter about spending.

As a former Accenture employee who retired, on good terms: i love this for this nest of privileged Greek system snakes. Last role of my career. People made it the worst experience of my 50 working years.