New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- A Reddit post claiming that artificial intelligence has already begun displacing software engineers has struck a nerve online, triggering a discussion about job security in the tech industry.

The post, shared by a Reddit user identified as SingularityuS, describes the experience of a mid-level software engineer who says he was laid off after his company shifted to what leadership described as an "AI-first execution model." According to the user, he had spent four years at the firm, led the backend team, shipped features, reviewed pull requests and was deeply familiar with systems colleagues relied on when things broke.

That sense of stability, he wrote, began to erode when company leadership started talking about "...