Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices Job Titles Don’t Mean What They Used To (And That Affects Your Pay) — with Dr. Ben Zweig (Part 2 of 2)
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Mar 3, 2026 
Dr. Ben Zweig, economist and CEO of Revelio Labs who studies labor markets and job architecture. He explains why 90 million job titles create pay and comparison problems. He shows how AI can group work by activities instead of labels. He explores managers constantly reshaping roles, why managerial orchestration grows valuable, and how jobs transform over time.
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LLMs Can Fix Job Title Chaos
- Job titles are chaotic and meaningless across companies, but the underlying work activities are written down in postings and resumes.
- Ben Zweig explains LLMs can group tasks by semantic similarity, turning millions of titles into a usable taxonomy for discovery.
Search Roles By Responsibilities Not Title
- When searching or comparing roles, focus on the bundle of activities not the title.
- Zweig recommends surfacing positions by similar responsibilities so a Product Manager at one company shows up as an engineering lead if duties match.
Management Becomes The Scarce Skill
- As work reconfigures constantly, managers' core job is continuous job reconfiguration and orchestration.
- Zweig argues that if AI automates execution, orchestration becomes the scarce skill that drives value.
