A new office status symbol: which model your company will pay for you to use
rickasaurus · x · 2026-07-26
The post jokes that job prestige is now measured by how powerful a model your employer is willing to pay for you to use.
It adds a status ladder that many people are seeing themselves as capped at “Opus level,” while others are stuck at “Sonnet spend,” turning model-access budgets into a proxy for workplace hierarchy.
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