2026 Career War Story: I Got Fired for Using Copilot 2.0 to Write Production Code Then Got Hired at Stripe

On March 12, 2026, I was escorted out of my Series C fintech startup’s office with a cardboard box, a non-disclosure agreement, and a termination letter citing “gross negligence in production code deployment” for using GitHub Copilot 2.0 to write 72%...