Jules

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I came up with a good ralph loop between GitHub Actions and Google Jules using the Jules API. So basically I have Jules extend its TODO.md with the next set of tasks and open a PR then run a GitHub Action with a few checks, auto-merge, and then call back into Jules to kick off the next cycle if there are still open tasks. It then mostly just runs”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-11

• “I've been impressed by Google Jules since the Gemini 3.1 Pro update”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-11

• “I like the model of Jules running in a completely isolated way: I don't have to care about it messing up my computer, and I can spin up as many simultaneous Juleses as I like without a fear of interference”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-14

• “Jules implemented in 10 minutes what would've taken me a week”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-13

• “I'll open up Jules, describe the tool, and have it scaffold the HTML”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-07

• “Jules was able to usually edit the code blind and get things working”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-10-04

• “giving Jules access to my GitHub project was a nice experience for me. It was able read my Gemfile and run my Rails app's test suite without me having to worry about all my private data on my machine”

  MIXED · Hacker News · 2025-10-04

• “All-in with extensive use of Google Jules to create/improve my stuff!”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-29

• “Jules can't even get past a basic-ass "npm build" script that works both on my mac and in a docker container"”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-08-08

• “jules was not very good - too messy and i prefer alternative outputs to creating a pull request”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-07

• “Jules quickly after a few messages/prompts just gets stuck in an endless loop”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-08-06

• “Jules now uses the advanced thinking capabilities of Gemini 2.5 Pro to develop coding plans, resulting in higher-quality code outputs”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2025-08-06

• “I've been actually kind-of enjoying using Jules as a way of "coding" my side project”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-08-06

• “Google's Jules, which charge per message rather than by usage. This setup is ideal for me”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2025-05-29

• “Jules detected my programming language, how to build and running it by me writing 'generaten GitHub action for my project and add a basic test to it'”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-05-26

• “Jules does a good job at "generating code I'm willing to maintain."”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-05-26

• “i added more functionality to it with ai stuff like claude code and now jules.google than i did myself in the last 3 years”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-05-23

• “Jules encountered an unexpected error. To continue, respond to Jules below or start a new task. And appears you have limited to 5 tasks per day”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-05-21