Jules by Google Labs is an asynchronous AI coding agent that works on your GitHub repos. Understands project context, fixes bugs, builds features & offers audio changelogs. Public beta now open.
Google Labs just launched Jules into public beta, and it's an interesting take on an AI coding assistant – designed to be more of an autonomous agent rather than just a code completion tool.
You can assign tasks to Jules (like fixing bugs, adding features, or even updating dependencies) and it works asynchronously in the background on your actual GitHub codebase. It clones your repo into a secure cloud VM, figures out the context, makes a plan which you can review and steer, and then gets to work. One neat feature is audio changelogs for your commits!
It doesn't train on your private code, and access is free during this public beta, with some usage limits. Jules shows that AI can take on more complete coding tasks independently, letting developers focus on other things.
@zaczuo Jules feels like a glimpse into the future of coding—an AI teammate that goes beyond suggestions to actually owning tasks asynchronously. Audio changelogs are a clever touch for quick updates. Can’t wait to see how this evolves!
Jules is like having an AI pair programmer who truly gets your GitHub projects. From bug fixes to feature building—and even audio changelogs—it’s an impressive step toward smoother, more efficient dev workflows.
Trying it now. Its like an extremely slow Cline. Im testing it for JSDoc improvement around a OSS projects. Just let it simmer for a few hours. So far so good. Can be good for maybe scanning through entire codebases looking for bugs etc.
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Hi everyone!
Google Labs just launched Jules into public beta, and it's an interesting take on an AI coding assistant – designed to be more of an autonomous agent rather than just a code completion tool.
You can assign tasks to Jules (like fixing bugs, adding features, or even updating dependencies) and it works asynchronously in the background on your actual GitHub codebase. It clones your repo into a secure cloud VM, figures out the context, makes a plan which you can review and steer, and then gets to work. One neat feature is audio changelogs for your commits!
It doesn't train on your private code, and access is free during this public beta, with some usage limits. Jules shows that AI can take on more complete coding tasks independently, letting developers focus on other things.
Kalyxa
@zaczuo Jules feels like a glimpse into the future of coding—an AI teammate that goes beyond suggestions to actually owning tasks asynchronously. Audio changelogs are a clever touch for quick updates. Can’t wait to see how this evolves!
Jules is like having an AI pair programmer who truly gets your GitHub projects. From bug fixes to feature building—and even audio changelogs—it’s an impressive step toward smoother, more efficient dev workflows.
Can it handle monorepos well too?
Atlas
This looks cool! I've tried Devin, and it's been... meh :'-D
Great launch! I hope this gets integrated with Firebase Studio + Gemini 2.5 and an extension for VSCode. Cheers!
Let me innnnnnnn!
Trying it now. Its like an extremely slow Cline. Im testing it for JSDoc improvement around a OSS projects. Just let it simmer for a few hours. So far so good. Can be good for maybe scanning through entire codebases looking for bugs etc.