They Forced a Junior to Use AI. Then Fired Him...

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 wha