India, May 21 -- A Bengaluru-based techie has gone viral on X after sharing a quirky "I GOT FIRED" button that he claimed could wreak havoc on a company's systems with just one click. Taking to X, Pankaj Tanwar, who is a software engineer by profession, joked about building the device amid growing discussions around AI-led layoffs and job security in the tech industry.

"ai layoffs are getting out of hands so I built 'I GOT FIRED' button," he wrote on X. "one click, and it makes entire company codebase public, pushes .env secrets to public repo, drops staging db and finally notifies my lawyer. I hope I never need it but it's ready," he added.

Tanwar also shared photos of the small multi-button device attached to his laptop. The images sh...