'I joined Anthropic because I looked at my Opus bill' — viral hiring meme
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-24
A viral meme post from engineer Thariq: 'I joined Anthropic because I looked at my Opus bill' — a self-deprecating joke about how expensive heavy Claude Opus API usage gets, implying joining the company is the way to pay it off. The quip resonates as a lighthearted jab at the high cost of frontier model API bills.
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