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Justin Poehnelt
Personal blog · justin.poehnelt.com/posts · on HN as justinwpprogrammingai
Justin Poehnelt's personal blog at justin.poehnelt.com covers programming and ai. Since 2022, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “You Need to Rewrite Your CLI for AI Agents”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Justin Poehnelt's posts on rewriting CLIs for AI agents. They are cited in discussion of the Googleworkspace CLI's design and its authentication problems.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Justin Poehnelt on software development, cloud infrastructure, AI agents, and ultra running. Founder and CTO at Helen's Foundry.
Most-linked posts?
- You Need to Rewrite Your CLI for AI Agents6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2026-03-04
- /2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-04-12
- Your App Should Ship an MCP Server2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-02
What Hacker News says?
https://justin.poehnelt.com Mostly about running(ultra distances) and my career as a software engineer. Built with 11ty.dev.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Building a MCP Client in Google Apps Script as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://justin.poehnelt.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Abandon Git LFS Because AI Agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLocation: Durango, Colorado Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Rust, TypeScript, Python, Go, SQL, React, SvelteKit, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Applied ML, MCP Résumé/CV: https://justin.poehnelt.com | https://github.com/jpoehnelt Email: justin.poehnelt@gmail.com GitHub: https://github.com/jpoehnelt LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-poehnelt/ I am a Senior Software Engineer with a decade…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)”Submitted Your App Should Ship an MCP Server as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTried this out today and it feels half-baked unfortunately. I can't get auth working ( https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli/issues/198 ). The decision to pass all params as a JSON string to --params makes it unfriendly for humans to experiment with, although Claude Code managed to one-shot the right command for me, so I guess this is fine. This is an intentional design per https://justin.poehnelt.com/posts/rewrite…
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on “Googleworkspace/CLI”Submitted Your App Should Ship an MCP Server as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think this blog post from the author is interesting: https://justin.poehnelt.com/posts/rewrite-your-cli-for-ai-ag...
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on “Googleworkspace/CLI”Submitted You Need to Rewrite Your CLI for AI Agents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionReadme was written before project got grabbed into official GitHub account? I'm still confused, @googleworkspace is not affiliated with Google? Seems like it was made by Google employee: https://justin.poehnelt.com/posts/rewrite-your-cli-for-ai-ag...
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on “Googleworkspace/CLI”Submitted Extracting Gold from Antigravity's Brain as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe fact that humans can use this feels like a side effect. The developer says it's "built for agents first" and "AI agents would be the primary consumers of every command, every flag, and every byte of output"[1]. [1] https://justin.poehnelt.com/posts/rewrite-your-cli-for-ai-ag...
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on “Googleworkspace/CLI”Submitted Agent Identity for Git Commits as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's built for agents first, unfortunately. https://justin.poehnelt.com/posts/rewrite-your-cli-for-ai-ag...
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on “Googleworkspace/CLI”Submitted Automator's Hole as a story · 1 points
HN discussionInteresting post from the main contributor about this (at least I assume it’s what he’s referencing) https://justin.poehnelt.com/posts/rewrite-your-cli-for-ai-ag...
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on “Googleworkspace/CLI”Submitted Show HN: Related Posts in Eleventy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://github.com/jpoehnelt jpoehnelt/README.md About I am a Developer Relations Engineer at Google. Currently I am on the Google Workspace DevRel team and was on the Google Maps Platform before that. Previously I worked at Descartes Labs and the US Geological Survey. Check out my website at https://justin.poehnelt.com .
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on “Googleworkspace/CLI”