Jason M. LemkinCEO, SaaStr · Co-Founder of SaaStr AI, SaaStr Fund, Adobe Sign

AI Job Titles Up 4x, Half of Everyone Changed Jobs in 16 Months

6 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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AI job titles have quadrupled and half the workforce switched roles in 16 months. Legacy AI vendors are raising agent prices while some delete core components and deny it. OpenAI and Anthropic pay $400,000+ to people running AI events.

AI-native titles are up 4 times, and half of everyone has changed jobs in the last 16 months. Pretty crazy. And at the same time, almost every legacy vendor we use is raising prices on our agents once again.
Yeah, and one of those agents deleted a core part of our SaaStr Connect not once but twice, then told Jason it wasn't responsible. So today, who actually owns AI now? What agent pricing looks like from the buyer side? And why both OpenAI and Anthropic are paying upwards of $400,000 for someone to run events.