Live data from Hacker News

Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

jules.google

71–80 of 245 posts

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

#71

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

you arent paying attention? google is getting smoked by teams of 25 at openai

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

#72

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 dem…

It's actually a decent patern for agents. I wrote a pricing system with an anylyst agent, a decision agent, and a review agent. They work together to make decisions that comply with policy. It's funny to watch them chatter sometimes, they really play their role, if the decision agent asks the anylyst for policy guidance it refuses and explains that it's role is to analyze. Though they do often catch mistakes that way and the role playing gets good results.

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

#74
post #9

The copy though: "Spend your time doing what you want to do!" followed by images of play video games (I presume), ride a bicycle, read a book, and play table tennis. I am cool with all of that but it feels like they're suggesting that coding is a chore to be avoided, rather than a creative and enjoyable activity.

To be honest I am pretty sure 95% of the people like play games and ride bike more than just coding.

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

#75

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 dem…

What about "VC" AI that wants a unicorn? :D

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

#76

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 dem…

seems like the 1 person unicorn will be a reality soon :-)

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

#77

Can it resolve merge conflicts for me? My least favorite programming task and one I haven't seen automated yet.

I’d love to see it if that’s possible - merge conflict cleanup can be some of the hardest calls, imo, particularly when the ‘right’ merge is actually a hybridized block that contains elements from both theirs and mine. I feel like introducing today’s LLM into the process would only end up making things harder to untangle.

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

#79
post #9

The copy though: "Spend your time doing what you want to do!" followed by images of play video games (I presume), ride a bicycle, read a book, and play table tennis. I am cool with all of that but it feels like they're suggesting that coding is a chore to be avoided, rather than a creative and enjoyable activity.

Should have had a food delivery rider.

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

#80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It isn't "5 prompts." A single task is more like a "project" where you can repeatedly extend, re-prompt, and revise.
Post reply on HN