justinwp
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Comment · 4 months ago
The launch was canceled after the fact.
Comment · 4 months ago
The "G" logo is a GitHub organization setting that applies to all repos in GitHub.com/googleworkspace and has for years.
Comment · 4 months ago
> they were about to announce in 2 weeks
Market validation can change roadmaps. As I stated on Twitter/X, CLIs for agents was not a very interesting thing outside a small group earlier in 2026.
Comment · 4 months ago
Wasn't ignored or skipped.
Comment · 4 months ago
Yes there was a launch with eng bit flipped by manager.
Comment · 4 months ago
There was a Ariane/Launch with bits flipped including the eng bit from my manager.
Comment · 4 months ago
There is a two "calendar" launch process for OSS at Google, one "calendar" is org specific, the other OSS. I followed the process and each of the bits were flipped in the same way I had always done it.
Comment · 4 months ago
Yes
Comment · 4 months ago
You are assuming that it was "personally" releasing something and that the process wasn't followed.
Comment · 4 months ago
To clarify, I was on the Google Workspace Developer Relations team, the majority of my work was that exact OSS release process. It is not clearly documented and always changing. You can read some of it here, https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/releasing/..., but like I said it is always changing. Relevant: https://www.theregister.com/software/2023/01/27/what-is-goog...
Comment · 4 months ago
I am not going to share much more than what I already have, but I think this speaks to the experience of working in big tech and the disruption caused by AI both at the level of teams/roadmaps/incentives and changing user behavior.
Comment · 5 months ago
Location: Durango, Colorado
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Technologies: Rust, TypeScript, Python, Go, SQL, React, SvelteKit, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Applied ML, MCP
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I am a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience bridging deep machine learning foundations with modern agent infrastructure. Previously a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Google and a Founding Engineer at Descartes Labs.
Recently, I architected the open-source https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli in Rust—built entirely via AI agents which hit 20k+ stars and #1 on HN. My background spans building petabyte-scale Kubernetes architectures, engineering visual search engines over billions of satellite images, and developing full-stack embedded Rust IoT firmware with custom LoRa mesh networking for endurance races.
I excel at taking systems from 0 to 1 and driving adoption developer experiences. I'm looking for Senior/Staff or Founding Engineer roles where I can tackle complex distributed systems or build secure, agent-first infrastructure.
Comment · 6 months ago
It's complicated :)
Comment · 6 months ago
Wrote a blog post on my experience and reasoning for a MCP server to drive my gpui app.
GitHub: https://github.com/jpoehnelt
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-poehnelt/
I am a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience bridging deep machine learning foundations with modern agent infrastructure. Previously a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Google and a Founding Engineer at Descartes Labs.
Recently, I architected the open-source https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli in Rust—built entirely via AI agents which hit 20k+ stars and #1 on HN. My background spans building petabyte-scale Kubernetes architectures, engineering visual search engines over billions of satellite images, and developing full-stack embedded Rust IoT firmware with custom LoRa mesh networking for endurance races.
I excel at taking systems from 0 to 1 and driving adoption developer experiences. I'm looking for Senior/Staff or Founding Engineer roles where I can tackle complex distributed systems or build secure, agent-first infrastructure.