We analyzed 36K job postings mentioning AI agents: Claude Code passed Cursor and Copilot, 35% of agentic roles are just buzzword

Original title: We went through 36K job postings that mention AI agents. Claude Code passed Cursor and Copilot, a third of "agentic" roles are just the buzzword, and only 1 in 5 companies building agents has one live

Drawing from an index of about 3.4M live job postings, the author extracted roughly 36K postings mentioning AI agents (consultancies and agencies excluded) and hand-checked a sample. Claude Code demand rose from 35 to 268 per 100K postings between Q4 2025 and Q3 2026, passing Cursor (255) and GitHub Copilot (143); by company count in Q3, 6,786 companies named Claude Code. 35% of postings using the word agentic describe no agent work, security agents have the highest live rate (32%), MCP is named by 9.6x as many companies as Google's A2A (5,820 vs 604), and only 4.8% of companies with live agents mention any observability or eval tool. The author notes live-agent numbers should be treated as an upper bound.

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