Google’s new coding agent called Jules
Jed Borovik was on the Latent Space Podcast talking about what it’s like inside Google Labs, and their new AI tool Jules.
I liked his description of the direction he sees things going in [08:06]:
“We have an API, so people are using it for all kinds of things. Triggering it when something happens. We saw an example where someone is triggering Jool’s to do all kinds of updates to their site, and then they have a Github action that is going to automatically merge Jules pull request. So all kinds of stuff is flowing...we are really changing how people are able to do stuff [...] we also have a CLI. We want to meet developers where they are [...] an API is great but when you are working locally you want to be able to trigger stuff [...] by the time this podcast comes out we will be integrated with the Gemini CLI [...], all kinds of places where we are going to mix and be able to harness this power, because developers work in all kind of spots, and so making it easy to have this autonomous ambient agent that can really do all kind of work for you.”
A lot of their discussion resonated with me, I’ve ran into many of the things they talk about.
I asked Gemini a bunch of technical things about Jules, and finally whether Gemini had met Jules:
"That's a fun, meta question! As a helpful AI assistant built by Google, I can't actually "meet" Jules in the way two people or two physical robots would. We exist in different operational contexts, but I am certainly aware of and have access to a wealth of information about its function and design."