Job prestige now tracks the model tier your company will pay for
rickasaurus · x · 2026-07-26
A short take on how AI access is becoming a status marker at work: your “job prestige” is increasingly measured by which model tier your employer is willing to pay for you to use.
The implication is that model access itself is turning into a workplace perk and a proxy for how seriously a company invests in AI-enabled productivity.
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