Google Jules
Ranked 14 of 41 coding agents by recommenders
People like its isolated cloud runs that you review as pull requests and steer from a phone; the common caveat is weak output quality.
People like its isolated cloud runs that you review as pull requests and steer from a phone; the common caveat is weak output quality.
44 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 23
- criticize it
- 21
- approval share
- 52%
Recommended in 11 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 23 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1 recommender for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 11 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Free or cheap to use
“Antigravity, Jules, and Gemini CLI are as good as the alternatives but are way more cost effective.”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft” “I use Google Jules (free tier) on a toy project much more heavily and can't complain.”
Comment from 31 Mar 2026 in “Anthropic: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'” “you can use jules and spend zero dollar on it”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler” - Comment from 27 Sep 2026 in “Ember-1”
Runs isolated in the cloud
“You can even box its network access. You review the PR at the end or steer it if it's veering off course.”
Comment from 24 Apr 2026 in “I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support” “The easiest way to do that today is to use one of the cloud-based asynchronous coding agent tools”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack” “I like the model of Jules running in a completely isolated way”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential"” Steer and check work from phone
“I use Google Jules and also appreciate being able to nudge it forward when not at the computer”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “I've Sold Out” “I've really appreciated basically being able to give directions to Jules on my phone”
Comment from 21 Jul 2026 in “Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber” “I can verify the result on my phone immediately.”
Comment from 7 Jan 2026 in “Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone” Good harness and feedback loop
“jules using the same models has a good harness with a good feedback loop”
Comment from 23 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Agent Kernel – Three Markdown files that make any AI agent stateful” “I have been happy with Google's Antigravity harness and Jules”
Comment from 21 Sep 2026 in “AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Output quality often low or mediocre
“The largest negative for me was that the output was always low quality.”
Comment from 30 Oct 2026 in “Jules winding down on Dec 31, 2026” “I've only had mediocre success with Jules using it for a couple weeks after launch”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “Ask HN: Coding experience with Gemini 3 Pro” Slow and misreads requirements
“it's actually really bad IMO. It's very slow and often completely misunderstands my requirements”
Comment from 22 May 2026 in “Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch” “Jules is slow incompetent shit and that uses tools in a loop”
Comment from 7 Jan 2026 in “Opus 4.5 is going to change everything” Weak model intelligence, flubbed tool calls
“I tested Jules and while the idea is good in theory, I found the model's intelligence to be very lackluster.”
Comment from 21 Jul 2026 in “Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber” “it was embarrassing how often it flubbed tool calls”
Comment from 21 Sep 2026 in “Grok 4.7” Behind command-line coding agents
“still jules.google.com is far behind in terms of actual coding agents which you can run in command line.”
Comment from 7 Jan 2026 in “Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI” “their version of Cursor (Jules or something), which wasn't great”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025”
Other coding agents people recommend
The four most recommended other coding agents, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 571 | 993 | 37% | 12 | 1 yr46 owners | — |
| oh-my-pi | 104 | 28 | 79% | 9 | 2 mo5 owners | Approved |
| Grok Build CLI | 66 | 114 | 37% | 6 | — | — |
| DeepSeek Harness | 63 | 28 | 69% | 4 | 1 mo5 owners | Approved |
| Google JulesThis page | 23 | 21 | 52% | 11 | — | — |
What people said
40 of the 53 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the product itself has outstanding design well ahead of competitors”
“The largest negative for me was that the output was always low quality.”
“about 98% of the commits are by AI bots (Antigravity, Google Jules)”
“their version of Cursor (Jules or something), which wasn't great”
“You get Jules (huge allotment btw)”
“it was embarrassing how often it flubbed tool calls”
“I have been happy with Google's Antigravity harness and Jules”
“If you can pay, you can use the locally-running tools to get a more interactive session going.”
“I tested Jules and while the idea is good in theory, I found the model's intelligence to be very lackluster.”
“I've really appreciated basically being able to give directions to Jules on my phone”
“finally get to have drudge-work tickets that I'd put off for ages done”
“it's actually really bad IMO. It's very slow and often completely misunderstands my requirements”
“Which somewhat ironically can import from github but not directly from aistudio..”
“the boundary is a git repository, the interface is a chat window you can open anywhere”
“I've noticed a big jump when they switched to Gemini 3.1 Pro and it really became useful.”
“You can even box its network access. You review the PR at the end or steer it if it's veering off course.”
“I use Google Jules and also appreciate being able to nudge it forward when not at the computer”
“I use Google Jules (free tier) on a toy project much more heavily and can't complain.”
“jules using the same models has a good harness with a good feedback loop”
“I've been impressed by Google Jules since the Gemini 3.1 Pro update.”
“Google found that with Jules years ago at this point, same for other automated tools.”
“I like the model of Jules running in a completely isolated way”
“it feels like the project is no longer mine”
“you can use jules and spend zero dollar on it”
“Antigravity, Jules, and Gemini CLI are as good as the alternatives but are way more cost effective.”
“Lately with Gemini CLI / Jules it doesn't seem like time spent is a good proxy for difficulty.”
“The UI is obviously vibe-coded garbage but the underlying system works.”
“you should use gemini cli or jules cli”
“still jules.google.com is far behind in terms of actual coding agents which you can run in command line.”
“Jules is slow incompetent shit and that uses tools in a loop”
“I can verify the result on my phone immediately.”
“Their attempts at making new products have been failure after failure recently”
“Jules and GitHub Copilot Agent suffice for similar workflows with less setup.”
“I like using them a lot when I can.”
“But it's currently in a very primitive state.”
“I think it has Gemini 3 now which can definitely do native apps just fine.”
“I've only had mediocre success with Jules using it for a couple weeks after launch”
“The easiest way to do that today is to use one of the cloud-based asynchronous coding agent tools”
“a cloud agent with an API saves a lot of effort”
“Weirdly heavy on the browser CPU.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.