[HN Gopher] Jules, remote coding agent from Google Labs, announc...
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       Jules, remote coding agent from Google Labs, announces API
        
       Author : watkajtys
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2025-10-03 19:08 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (jules.google)
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Url with the anchor in case it moves:
       | https://jules.google/docs/changelog/#introducing-the-jules-a...
        
       | yoavm wrote:
       | I have an old Django site I'm maintaining for a long-time
       | customer of mine. They often want to make small changes - things
       | that are only a few lines of code, but would take an hour to just
       | spin up the system, remind myself how it works, commit, push,
       | update the server and all that.
       | 
       | Last week I've moved the whole infrastructure to Railway, and
       | taught the customer to use Jules. They make their own PRs now,
       | and Railway spins up an environment with the changes, so the
       | customer can check it themselves. It works like 75% of the time,
       | and when it doesn't, the customer see that it doesn't before it
       | even reaches me. Only if they're happy with the changes, I step
       | in to review the code and press merge. It's been a such a huge
       | time saver so far.
        
         | derektank wrote:
         | How expensive are the API charges? Seems like it might be a bit
         | too easy for a customer to rack up a big bill testing out minor
         | changes if things weren't configured correctly.
        
           | tecoholic wrote:
           | There is a free plan with 15 tasks/sessions. It doesn't count
           | tokens AFAIK. There would obviously be a runtime limit of
           | some sorts for sure. But it's not the same as API keys and
           | token situation
        
         | f311a wrote:
         | I hope they don't store any user data in their app. Trusting
         | LLMs blindly is a bad idea.
        
       | verdverm wrote:
       | Do people trust these kinds of things to effectively work async
       | and unsupervised?
       | 
       | My experience with coding agents leads me to believe using
       | something like this will end up being more noise and work than
       | ROI
       | 
       | I suppose it could be effectively the same loop I use in VS Code,
       | but then why would I want an external tool over an integration?
        
         | hackernewds wrote:
         | VS Code is not a coding agent as much as it is code generation
         | and completion
        
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