"AI is in the cultural zeitgeist"

Within the engineering tech sphere, CI/CD have also been terms that have been standard for at least a decade now.

You would probably be rejected from most interviews at the first stage if you didn't vaguely know what they mean at this point.

Linears entire product is tailored towards software engineers/engineers in general or people who work alongside engineers, so its not surprise their posts have a bit of assumed knowledge.