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New AI field signal Development 20h ago
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companies scramble cut AI token spending

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

11 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Simon Willison Mar Hicks Olivia Guest 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Scott McGrath Dare Obasanjo +3

“TIL from https://t.co/349k1txWLV that a material chunk of Accenture's token spend is non-engineers using LLMs to convert PDFs into markdown! https://t.co/lWkPqhJ0QI”

“Companies encouraged employees to use AI and now they’re spending gobs of cash on tokens for employees to convert documents to PDF😅 “Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides” w…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
404 Media: Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. They're not the only company now telling staff to slow down on AI use @evy…
Teresa Heffernan: Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. They're not the only company now telling staff to slow down on AI use @evy…
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Established AI field signal Signal 7d ago

11632d03 358c 454b af95 d06d4072932b

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Simon Willison Sung Kim Mary Branscombe

“"Anthropic told investors on Wednesday distillation accounted for 5 per cent to 7 per cent of revenue" If true, and Q2 revenue was $11.5B, then that's more than half a billion dollars spent by other labs to distill Anthropic's models! www.ft.com/content/116…”

“Something tells me Anthropic ain't worth $2T. www.ft.com/content/1163...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Sung Kim: Something tells me Anthropic ain't worth $2T. www.ft.com/content/1163...
Gus: why do you think so? (not a challenge!!, real curiosity)
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Primary source ft.com ↗
Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago
⚡ 12 h early

Battle Drones—a vibe coded RTS with audio-based multiplayer

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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Simon Willison Daniel Hutchinson

“OK, that headache bug was really bad! It inspired me to add proper online multiplayer to Battle Drones (via a tiny @fly.io hosted WebSockets relay server) - now you can start an online game and send a link to a friend so they can join you simonwillison.net/…”

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Established Models & releases Analysis 20d ago
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2026 LLM year review essay

2026 in LLMs (so far)

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Simon Willison Antonin Raffin

“I've published detailed notes and an annotated transcript to accompany the video of the keynote I gave at @wearedevelopers.bsky.social World Congress North America in San Jose on Friday - here's my rundown of everything that's happened with LLMs in 2026 so …”

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Established Models & releases Release 20d ago
Qwen3 27B model release

chat_template.jinja · Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B at main

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Simon Willison

“Have you seen how reasoning levels for Qwen actually work? It's pretty funny, the level you select gets used to dynamically assemble a system prompt effectively telling it to "think carefully" huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”

Primary source huggingface.co ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 10d ago
Willison Python 3.15 upgrade notes

Hello Python 3.15, goodbye 3.10, and now I can use 3.11

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Simon Willison

“Shared some notes on Python 3.15, using it with uv, and features from Python 3.11 I'm excited to use now that 3.10 is no longer the minimum supported version for my own projects simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/12/...”

Primary source simonwillison.net ↗
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5 experts · 20 posts · 20d ago
Simon Willison Phillip Isola critical slop studies rev. howard arson Amy Hoy
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Simon Willison: Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic…
rev. howard arson: Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic…
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3 experts · 3 posts · 9d ago
Simon Willison Alondra Nelson Anil Dash
Simon Willison: I spotted Claude doing something similar recently, didn't realize ChatGPT had that too I don't really understand these features :/
Alondra Nelson: Apparently ChatGPT on macOS, when starting a conversation in "work" mode, grants continued remote access to the computer it was started on to anyone logged in to the same account, including the web…
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2 experts · 5 posts · 19d ago
Simon Willison Dare Obasanjo
Dare Obasanjo: One thing I dislike about the current AI-native focus across tech is how difficult it is to give advice to entry-level PMs. Few companies want to hire you, and those that do increasingly want you t…
Simon Willison: Do you think it makes sense to coach them in learning how to build interactive prototypes?
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