Ex-Google engineer Justin Poehnelt says he was fired after his viral Google Workspace CLI hit No. 1 on Hacker News, drawing thousands of GitHub stars and users in days. The seven-year veteran claims Workspace leaders feared disruption from AI agents, not his tool itself. The irony: Google announced an official Workspace CLI at Cloud Next just two days before his termination. His X thread has since crossed millions of views.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ex-Google engineer Justin Poehnelt says he was fired after his viral Google Workspace CLI hit No. 1 on Hacker News, drawing thousands of GitHub stars and users in days. The seven-year veteran claims Workspace leaders feared disruption from AI agents, not his tool itself. The irony: Google announced an official Workspace CLI at Cloud Next… Read More »Google engineer reportedly sacked over viral Workspace CLI AI tool<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":117075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}