India, Feb. 25 -- Use of artificial intelligence in software development has grown rapidly in recent years, promising faster delivery and higher productivity. But for one techie, it became the reason for losing his job.

In a Reddit post, a techie shared how his colleague was fired for using AI to write code that later caused a production issue.

"Using AI in your job instead of understanding code got my colleague fired," the caption of the post reads.

According to the post, the techie was skilled in Python, had practised data structures and algorithms, and had also built a solid project during his time at university.

"He was under no circumstances underqualified," the post adds.

The techie had not worked before and had no idea how to ...