Ask HN: Are you a SWE that lost job purely due to AI? Share your story

Haven’t seen a clean “AI replaced me” case yet; mostly I’ve seen hiring freezes plus one engineer expected to do 1.5x with copilots. A clearer signal is this: was the role removed and budget moved to tooling, or just cut with no replacement?

prior ask HN thread from early feb 2026: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867190

AI? No. Geopolitical reasons? Yes.