Bengaluru techie builds AI-powered 'I Got Fired' button amid mass tech layoffs

Key points

• A Bengaluru techie shared how growing anxieties around AI-led layoffs pushed him to build a wildly dramatic, and intentionally over-the-top “I GOT FIRED” button, designed to unleash digital chaos with a single click.
• The now-viral post was shared on X by Pankaj, a Bengaluru-based creator known online for building quirky, often humorous tech inventions for bizarre everyday situations.
• This time, however, his latest invention struck a nerve online for feeling a little too relatable in today’s uncertain tech climate.
• Read Full Story In the post, Pankaj joked about rising fears around job insecurity in the age of automation, writing, “AI layoffs are getting out of hands so I built ‘I GOT FIRED’ button ” But it was the supposed functionality of the button that really grabbed attention.
• According to him, pressing it would instantly trigger a chain of chaotic actions: “one click, and it makes the entire company codebase public,...