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Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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Post by nathan_compton »

diggan wrote: post #16
thorum wrote: post #4

Google’s ability to offer inference for free is a massive competitive advantage vs everyone else: > Is Jules free of charge? > Yes, for now, Jules is free of charge. Jules is in beta and available without payment while we learn from usage. In the future, we expect to introduce pricing, but our focus right now is improving the developer experience. https://jules-documentation.web.app/faq

> Google’s ability to offer inference for free is a massive competitive advantage vs everyone else: Haven't tried Jules myself yet, still playing around with Codex, but personally I don't really care if it's free or not. If it solves my problems better than the others, then I'll use it, otherwise I'll use other things. I'm sure I'm not alone in focusing on how well it works, rather than what it costs (until a certain…

I tried using Codex today and it sucked real bad, so maybe Jules will actually be good?

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

Is the "asynchronous" bit important? How long does it take to do its thing?

My normal development workflow of ticket -> assignment -> review -> feedback -> more feedback -> approval -> merging is asynchronous, but it'd be better synchronous. It's only asynchronous because the people I'm assigning the work to don't complete the work in seconds.

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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Post by breakingwalls »

candiddevmike wrote: post #3
breakingwalls wrote: post #2

Wow, it looks like Google and Microsoft timed their announcements for the same day, or perhaps one of them rushed their launch because the other company announced sooner than expected. These are exciting times! https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-github-copilot-codi...

Google IO is this week, same as Microsoft Build. Battle of the attention grabbing announcements.

We have to see what Google has in store, probably better models, AI integrations with Android Studio and may be bring glasses back?

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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Post by miki123211 »

111111101101 wrote: post #43

I was interested. Clicked the try button and just another wait list. When will Google learn that the method that worked so well with Gmail doesn't work any more. There are so many shiny toys to play with now, I will have forgotten about this tomorrow.

The method absolutely does work, but you need loyal advocates who are praising your product to their friends, or preferrably users who are already knocking on your door.

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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Post by jsemrau »

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ldjkfkdsjnv wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They had to release something, openai is moving at blazing speed

Sounds like a meme. I just can't take the phrase "blazing speed" seriously anymore. Is this intended humorously? Or is it just me

It's success theater. You need to show progress otherwise you might be perceived falling behind. In times where LoI's are written and partnerships are forged the promise has more value than the fact.

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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Post by miki123211 »

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #19
diggan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Google’s ability to offer inference for free is a massive competitive advantage vs everyone else: Haven't tried Jules myself yet, still playing around with Codex, but personally I don't really care if it's free or not. If it solves my problems better than the others, then I'll use it, otherwise I'll use other things. I'm sure I'm not alone in focusing on how well it works, rather than what it costs (until a certain…

That's all good and well but its takes time to compare the products. And people are rarely willing to use paid product for comparison.

I just noticed that this is definitely true for me, but not if the product is pay to go.

I have far fewer qualms about spending $10 on credits, even if I decide the product isn't worth it and never actually spend those credits, than about taking a free trial for a $5 subscription.

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

So, you can assign github issues to this thing, and it can handle them, merge the results in, and mark the bug as fixed?

I kind of wonder what would happen if you added a "lead dev" AI that wrote up bugs, assigned them out, and "reviewed" the work. Then you'd add a "boss" AI that made new feature demands of the lead dev AI. Maybe the boss AI could run the program and inspect the experience in some way so it could demand more specific changes. I wonder what would happen if you just let that run for a while. Presumably it'd devolve into some sort of crazed noise, but it'd be interesting to watch. You could package the whole thing up as a startup simulator, and you could watch it like a little ant farm to see how their little note-taking app was coming along.

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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Post by spongebobstoes »

85392_school wrote: post #29
thorum wrote: post #4

Google’s ability to offer inference for free is a massive competitive advantage vs everyone else: > Is Jules free of charge? > Yes, for now, Jules is free of charge. Jules is in beta and available without payment while we learn from usage. In the future, we expect to introduce pricing, but our focus right now is improving the developer experience. https://jules-documentation.web.app/faq

There are some limits: > 2 concurrent tasks > 5 total tasks per day

5 tasks per day is low enough to be roughly useless for serious work
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