Justin Poehnelt says Google fired him over the Google Workspace CLI

Category: Pulse
Status: discussion
Sources: Justin Poehnelt (X), discussion
Summary: Justin Poehnelt, a former Google Workspace developer-relations engineer, wrote on his verified X account that Google fired him over the Google Workspace CLI he built, which went viral and reached the top of Hacker News. He attributes the firing partly to legal concerns over Google branding on the public repository and to organizational anxiety about AI agents disrupting Workspace. An official Google Workspace CLI had been announced shortly before.
Why it matters: It is a practitioner account of internal tension between agent-oriented developer tooling and platform-owner control, attributed to the author's own account.