Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days.
It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors and leaders asking what they could learn from the tool to getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories.
I think the cause was that Workspace and certain leaders (and projects) were afraid of being disrupted. But the fear wasn't specific to my CLI, it was a broader fear in what agents meant for Workspace. Either way, the irony of my termination was the announcement at Google Cloud Next two days before I was fired that an official Workspace CLI was coming.
I want this out there because it is easier for me to explain my story and it is an experience I want to fully own. It's also part of my healing.
Nearly 7 years at Google was an incredible opportunity for me and I was fortunate to have wonderful teammates and a manager that fully supported me through these last few months. Thank you.
BREAKING!! From the Amercian Fork City Council meeting LIVE a few hours ago, citizen BOLDLY calls out the POLICE for their behaviour directed at Reckless Ben!!!
Allegedly in my opinion.
Reckless Ben explains why he's no longer able to talk about Bricks & Minifigs after being sent court papers
"Episode 3 is finally finished..but I can't post it or I will go to jail..I will also immediately lose my lawsuit..and the GoFundMe that we made for Bryan..will go straight to this mystery company"
"They sent court papers to my email..judge approved..now that I'm officially served, I cannot even mention this company or I will be in jail..normally I would be like screw the big guy..if I do that then all my friends get screwed with this lawsuit and we lose all the GoFundMe money..so I am no longer allowed to mention this mystery company..my personal opinion is that this is unfair"
(Via RecklessBen on YT)
The reality here is that if Ben didn't have ample amounts of time and loose income, a platform, BAM would be able to steal 200k worth of Lego from a dying old man.
Thats 'the process' we should trust?
@Dexerto The CEO was literally the one on the phone call with Josh and the cops telling the cops to find anything they could to arrest Ben.
This just looks like Ammon McNeff is trying to save his own ass. The entire corporation needs to go.
General Catalyst just co-led a $31.5 million seed round into a blatant rip-off of my company, Kled.
(skip to 40 seconds if you want to skip context)
I would typically not speak on things like this, but this level of blatant copycatting is egregious and completely unacceptable, and needs to be made an example of.
This is one of hundreds of YC startups who have conducted this disgusting behavior. Unimaginative slop that continues to get rewarded due to nepotism.
Extremely disappointed to see my work used and altered without my permission by @ayushsoni_io as branding material for a venture capital company.
About a year ago, he reached out asking to collaborate. We had a few initial conversations, but ultimately didn’t reach an agreement and decided not to move forward together. Despite that, my work has now been used without my consent.
Given his large following on Twitter, I think it’s important to call this out publicly, and I would strongly advise others not to trust or work with this person in the future.
Below are direct comparisons of my work alongside the branding:
Boohoo not cool man
> Register many names similar to Tanstack
> Create a README to make it look like one
> All created just a year ago
> Ransom $10k from Tanner
> Publish malware to steal .env
This is not an accident, this is an intentional malicious behavior
Shame on you @SH20RAJ for making the job of Open Source maintainers harder than it already is
I sincerely hope your employer know what you did and that you shouldn’t be trusted or get blacklisted on your future employment
All aggregators had their payouts reduced to 60% this cycle. We will add another 20% deduction in the next cycle.
It became abundantly clear: flooding the timeline with 100 stolen reposts and clickbait everyday crowded-out real creators and hurt new author growth.
The next step is to assign a permanent deduction to habitual bait posters who use “🚨BREAKING”on every post.
X will never infringe on speech or reach—but we will not compensate for manipulation of the program or our users.
i can spot a grifter from miles away.
so i digged into the code to figure out if this is legit or not.
guess i was right.
ben is a crypto founder who runs some weird bitcoin lending platform, i was pretty sure he knows absolutely nothing about ai and memory so i tracked down the repo myself since i was curious.
his website says he likes to build ai powered products and train local ai models? sure man, 80% of your github repo's are bitcoin related stuff. only one ai related project came up you forked in 2024.
mempalace has 10k github stars, more than 1k forks but only.. 7 commits ?
apparently the best memory layer to date?
no git author history, no account connected to whoever wrote the code of this codebase.
it doesn't add up..
the account who pushed the original repo, named: aya-thekeeper, under aya-thekeeper/mempal got deleted right after the repo got published.
you paid a random guy named lu to build this shit out for you.
( "Written by Lu (DTL) — March 24, 2026.
For: Ben." ) - benchmark md file.
lu wrote the code. lu wrote the benchmarks. lu is nowhere in the readme. or mentioned in the github history?
the git history then got squashed to one commit and published under milla jovovich? seriously? a actress?
you say she is a great friend of yours, she has been building this project with you. she does this at night.
yet she has.. 7 commits and only 2 active days in her entire github history?
you paid an actress and a random guy to promote a product you know absolutely nothing about.
Update on my previous post: I ordered a ₹3 Lakh RTX 5090 on @AmazonIN and got a 1.56kg packet of detergent. Amazon promised a refund to kill the social media buzz, but they're just stalling. Now, I've uncovered a massive internal FBA fraud ring.
Thread @AmazonHelp@AmitAgarwal
Delve knows no shame.
They allegedly sold another YC company’s (@simdotai) open source tool as a standalone product to companies like Notion and Brex without attribution, violating the Apache license, and then lied about it to the founders of Sim.
The founders of Sim (@emkara) are left with nothing while Delve walks away with the money.
please shut the fuck up i don't even care about the specific thing you're saying i'm just so tired of hearing predictions one after the other telling me what the future is going to be like just please shut the fuck up
I had an offer from an incredibly well-funded startup in early 2020 ($150M+ raised). I was supposed to join their ML team in April. I had already resigned and was serving my notice when COVID hit.
HR called and said they were deferring my offer. Assured me the offer was safe and that they just wanted me to join once offices reopened.
For the next couple of months we stayed in touch. Every conversation repeated the same thing: the offer is safe. The market was dead, so I spent the time doing research with an ex-advisor.
We finally set my joining date: June 1st.
In the last two weeks of May I had multiple calls with my future manager. We discussed MacBook configs, projects I’d work on, brainstormed approaches. I even shared my shipping address for the laptop.
Two days before joining they rescinded the offer.
That day I learned something important:
Your employer will not hesitate to rescind an offer or lay you off if it benefits them.
You shouldn’t feel guilty about optimizing for yourself either.
Everyone is optimizing for their own interests. It’s a ruthless market.
An employer has 100 / 1000 / 10000 employees.
You only have one job.