Our AI agent experience: we scrapped the multiple $60,000 salary marketing jobs and hired one person at a far higher salary

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In July, Accenture published guidance for companies alarmed by their AI bills. Avoid blanket usage cuts, it said. Don’t tell employees to use less AI. Route work to the cheapest model that does the job. It also noted that in nearly every deployment it had examined, including its own, fewer than 10% of users and workflows drive the vast majority of the bill. On Oct. 1, according to an internal announcement obtained by 404 Media, Accenture began centrally funding $29 a month per person toward Claude; anything above that had to be charged to a project. Internal messages seen by the publication show employees who had been spending $500 to $1,000 a month, and one who said their access was revoked entirely. Accenture says reporting that it has put a firm limit on its people’s access to AI tools is incorrect. Take the company at its word, but the distinction is real, and the exposure is real: fixed-price contracts are more than 65% of Accenture’s bookings, so token costs land on its own…

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