They Forced a Junior to Use AI. Then Fired Him for the Bugs It Wrote.

My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub Me: gabrielanhaia Two Bugs and a Cardboard Box A junior engineer at an AI startup shipped two bugs to production. Got fired for it. Read that again. Two bugs. From a first-year developer. At a company that told him to use AI coding tools. That's not a performance issue. That's a Tuesday. The company had "strongly encouraged" every engineer to lean on tools like Cursor. Ship faster. Write more. Let the machine handle the boring parts. So this junior did exactly what he was told. The machine produced code. The code had bugs. The bugs hit production. And the person who followed instructions got walked out of the building. Reddit caught fire. Thousands of comments ripped into the company for building a trap and punishing the person who fell into it. Because that's what happened. Leadership set the rules, picked the tools, decided speed mattered more than correctness, and then acted shocked when correctness suffered. The Coinbase Connection This didn't happen