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Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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I am really looking forward to “version bumps” without breaking the dependency tree at the very least, something which Dependabot almost gets right.

From a security use-case perspective, it will be great if it can bump libs that fixes most of the vulnerabilities without breaking my app. Something no tool does today ie. being code and breaking change aware.

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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Shhhh... don't tell the plebes what it really means to "2x their productivity". Seriously though, this kind of tech-assisted work output improvement has happened many times in the past, and by now we should all have been working 4-hour weeks, but we all know how it has actually worked out.

As a business owner, why would give up some of the profits? You started a business to make money not to do charity. Expecting businesses to act against their interests make no sense

For many, profit is only one of the purposes of the business.

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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This is the kind of attitude that leads to revolutions.

Blame the system, not the actors. See a recent HN submission, The Evolution of Trust by Nicky Case: https://ncase.me/trust/ If there's one big takeaway from all of game theory, it's this: What the game is, defines what the players do. Our problem today isn't just that people are losing trust, it's that our environment acts against the evolution of trust. That may seem cynical or naive -- that we're "merely" products…

> we have to define what kind of society we want, predict likely responses, and build systems to manage them.

Nailed it. At the end of the day, companies are automatons. It is up to use to update the reward and punishment functions to get the behaviour we desire. Behaviourism 101

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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Why not? VCs manage investors' money, not their own. If investors think AI is so great, they will have no problem delegating this job to AI, right?

I think it was a joke, VCs are happy to replace all jobs except their own.

Why, they'd happily delegate their own job if they've got to keep the proceeds.

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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$0 opens up new doors. You use it differently at $0. Fundamentally.

until you built your stuff on 0$ assumption start depending on it and then the price increases.

And if it's a good product / you're locked in, you pay up.

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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I decided to be an engineer as opposed to manager because I didn't like people management. Now it looks like I'm forced to manage robots that talk like people. At least I can be the as non-empathetic as I want to be. Unless a startup starts doing HR for AI agents then I'm screwed.

Empathy is the only skill that matters now.

Why?

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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It shouldn't be, because LLM:s can't be trusted in the way literature can. People around you are also going to question why you insist on such a power hungry setup.

I’m not suggesting LLMs are infallible, but boy you’re overselling the accuracy of literature

Why do you think that?

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

#179

Can’t wait to try this! Codex and codex cli are the best from what I have tested so far. Codex is really neat as I can do it from ChatGPT app.

You're the first person I've seen say this about codex.

Have you tried Claude Code / aider / cursor?

What did you need to do differently to get it to work functionally? I feel like the common experience has been universally poor.

Re: Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

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Notice how no-one (up until now) mentioned "Devin" or compared it to any other AI agent? It appears that AI moves so quickly that it was completely forgotten or little to no-one wanted to pay for its original prices. Here's the timeline: 1. Devin was $200 - $500. 2. Then Lovable, Bolt, Github Copilot and Replit reduced their AI Agent prices to $20 - $40 3. Devin was then reduced to $20. 4. Then Cursor and Windsurf AI…

Jules: (PROMOTED) Please insert your PINECONE_API_KEY here

Dev: I don't think we need a paid solution- I think we can even use an in-memory solution...

Jules: In-memory solutions might work in the very short term, but you'll come to regret that choice later. Pinecone prevents those painful 2AM crashes when your data scales. You'll thank me later, trust me.

Please insert your PINECONE_API_KEY here

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