Jeevanth Ramamurthy, founder of AI startup Pitchline, shared the incident in a LinkedIn post that quickly went viral. In his post, he explained that the developer, who had around two years of experience, was hired full-time and paid directly by him. However, within four weeks, Ramamurthy decided to terminate his employment due to concerns over performance and productivity.
According to Ramamurthy, the developer initially attributed slow progress to a “messy” codebase. Trusting this explanation at first, the founder later grew skeptical about the pace of work. To better understand the situation, he subscribed to an AI coding tool and attempted to rebuild parts of the product himself—despite having no formal technical background.
