# Google Jules 23 Hacker News commenters recommended Google Jules and 21 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months. **Verdict:** People like its isolated cloud runs that you review as pull requests and steer from a phone; the common caveat is weak output quality. ## Why people recommend it - Free or cheap to use (4 comments): "Antigravity, Jules, and Gemini CLI are as good as the alternatives but are way more cost effective." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857090)) "I use Google Jules (free tier) on a toy project much more heavily and can't complain." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588974)) "you can use jules and spend zero dollar on it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908127)) - Runs isolated in the cloud (3 comments): "You can even box its network access. You review the PR at the end or steer it if it's veering off course." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895159)) "The easiest way to do that today is to use one of the cloud-based asynchronous coding agent tools" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051210)) "I like the model of Jules running in a completely isolated way" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013092)) - Steer and check work from phone (3 comments): "I use Google Jules and also appreciate being able to nudge it forward when not at the computer" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695664)) "I've really appreciated basically being able to give directions to Jules on my phone" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993653)) "I can verify the result on my phone immediately." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523061)) - Good harness and feedback loop (2 comments): "jules using the same models has a good harness with a good feedback loop" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493416)) "I have been happy with Google's Antigravity harness and Jules" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781514)) ## What people warn about - Output quality often low or mediocre (2 comments): "The largest negative for me was that the output was always low quality." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298309)) "I've only had mediocre success with Jules using it for a couple weeks after launch" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110732)) - Slow and misreads requirements (2 comments): "it's actually really bad IMO. It's very slow and often completely misunderstands my requirements" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232397)) "Jules is slow incompetent shit and that uses tools in a loop" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526204)) - Weak model intelligence, flubbed tool calls (2 comments): "I tested Jules and while the idea is good in theory, I found the model's intelligence to be very lackluster." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994522)) "it was embarrassing how often it flubbed tool calls" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792258)) - Behind command-line coding agents (2 comments): "still jules.google.com is far behind in terms of actual coding agents which you can run in command line." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46532196)) "their version of Cursor (Jules or something), which wasn't great" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978696)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [GitHub Copilot](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-copilot.md): 571 recommend - [oh-my-pi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/oh-my-pi.md): 104 recommend - [Grok Build CLI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grok-build.md): 66 recommend - [DeepSeek Harness](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepseek-harness.md): 63 recommend - [Claude Code VS Code extension](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-code-vs-code-extension.md): 31 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://jules.google/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Google Jules", https://hackerapproved.com/p/jules/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).