New Delhi, Nov. 8 -- An Indian Software Development Engineer (SDE) has drawn attention on social media after sharing their experience of working for a company that required employees to pay for artificial intelligence (AI) tools for office work without reimbursement. In a now-viral Reddit post titled "Feeling the burn of AI in a weird way at my workplace", the employee questioned whether the company's actions amounted to "employee extortion."

The SDE explained, "I am working as an SDE in a product-based startup. Recently, they came to know about Cursor IDE and they have been nagging us for some time to write unit tests on our codebase. They figured the developers can quickly use Cursor to write the test cases and reach an 80 per cent cov...