Accenture Tells Employees to Spend Only $29 on Claude per Month(www.404media.co)
16 pointsby ilreb5 hours ago5 comments
  • jerlam2 hours ago
    > Meaning, if an employee goes over the allocated $29 — and $29 is nothing compared to the costs some Accenture employees are raking up — workers have to find a specific project or team (called a Work Breakdown Structure or WBS at Accenture) to fund the rest of the usage.

    It sounds like they need Claude usage to be tied to a paying customer so they can bill that customer for that usage. That's how many services organizations work.

  • mostlysimilar3 hours ago
    Do 404media links get auto de-ranked on HN? I know it's a contentious publication in the SV tech circles. I'm surprised this isn't higher up.
  • ilamont3 hours ago
    I get the concern over tokenmaxxing and dead-end projects, but they are going to lose talented people over such petty limits, and hold back the work they do for clients.
    • mostlysimilar3 hours ago
      One would imagine they've run the numbers and found it to be unproductive to spend more on Claude.
      • ilamont3 hours ago
        I question whether the numbers they are looking at capture everything that's going on.

        $100/mo on Claude Max for me (probably headed to $200/mo by years end). The time saved on tedium, the analytic insights I can generate for clients, and the progress I can make on R&D is difficult to assess and measure within my small business P&L.

        • mostlysimilar2 hours ago
          Perhaps the average employee at this organization is ill-equipped to make good use of AI. Efficiency and effectiveness might be a function of a good engineer wielding it, while a bad engineer might burn through tokens just to keep up.

          Or maybe that's just me in the bargaining stage of my career collapsing.

  • smb063 hours ago
    $29? So basically one half decent session to plan and half-build some moderately complex task? Per month?
  • beardyw3 hours ago
    Just don't let the markets hear that. Quiet now.