You open a job post for a senior backend role. The stack is what you would expect: TypeScript, Postgres, AWS, a bit of Go. And then, sitting in the list like it has always belonged there, one more line.
Cursor.
Not "we are an AI company." Not a perk buried three scrolls down the careers page. A tool, in the requirements, in the same slot where they tell you which database they run.
A year ago the AI editor you coded with was a private preference. You found out what your new team used sometime in the first week, usually by glancing at someone's screen during a pairing session. Now companies are writing it down before you have even applied.
So I did the boring thing and counted. I went through every company on Remoet that is currently hiring (866 of them) and asked one question: which ones name an AI coding tool right there in their job posts?
