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Jules

Jules is an AI coding agent that autonomously completes programming tasks and pull requests for software development teams.

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This page reflects public online discussion, collected and scored by automated systems and summarized using AI. It is not a statement of fact, not an audit, and not our own opinion of the product. Automated analysis can be incomplete or wrong, and scores carry the limitations described in our methodology. Companies can respond with their own perspective. See how this is calculated.

Updated July 27, 2026

Overall Pulse Score

45
Pulse Score

A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 5 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 1 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.

Weekly Sentiment Trend

Pulse Score by week over the selected period. Each point is one complete week of mentions.

This week in public discussion

Over the recent four-week period, community discussion around Jules was limited in volume and leaned negative overall. Commenters raised concerns about AI quality, with several mentions comparing it unfavorably to competitors like Antigravity, Claude, and Codex. A recurring complaint focused on the lack of updates and perceived stagnation, with users questioning whether the project was still actively maintained. A small number of voices praised the core workflow concept, particularly the mobile-to-GitHub pull request experience, though even those comments carried reservations.

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AI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.

Sentiment mix by week

How the tone of public discussion splits each week.

Most-discussed praise

Compared to rivals1
Strong features1

Most-discussed complaints

AI quality2
Missing features2
Compared to rivals1
Poor support1

Themes across the selected period, with mention counts.

How Jules compares

Pulse Score over the selected period versus the top tracked competitors in Coding.

No public discussion recorded in this period to compare. Scores reflect the most recent data, from July 27, 2026. Try a wider range to see the comparison.

Where the mentions come from

Share of the 5 relevant public mentions in the selected period, by source.

Hacker News100% (5)

Sample public mentions

Showing 5 of 5 analyzed public mentions in this period, with links to the original source. We do not reproduce full threads.

Shame. I'm on the $20/mo Gemini Pro plan because the 5tb of cloud storage and the youtube premium lite were good enough perks, and my coding complexity needs were light enough for me to overlook Claude or Codex. But Antigravity is working better than Jules and it's basically givi...

Hacker NewsJul 21, 2026

Both Claude and Codex can code in the cloud, it works quite well!I tested Jules and while the idea is good in theory, I found the model's intelligence to be very lackluster.

Hacker NewsJul 21, 2026

No word about updating Jules, which is still stuck on 3.1 Pro. I get that it's probably niche but I've really appreciated basically being able to give directions to Jules on my phone, then reviewing and merging a GitHub PR fifteen minutes later. It's been great for getting some p...

Hacker NewsJul 21, 2026

I've never vibe-coded anything from scratch, but I do use the likes of Claude and Jules to work on my own open source projects.All of these have a couple of thousand commits that I'd done myself over the years, so I don't have that sense of "what has been built and what's my cont...

Hacker NewsJun 22, 2026

I have no affiliations with the team or product, but Superconductor reminded me of Jules when I tried it a couple of months ago.It might be overkill features-wise, but there's a free tier and it likely won't be left for dead anytime soon.

Hacker NewsJul 21, 2026

Deeper analysis

  • The dominant theme in discussion was uncertainty about whether Jules remains an actively developed project.
  • Sentiment carried a tone of quiet disappointment, with complaints about AI quality and perceived stagnation outweighing praise.
  • Opinion was divided between commenters who had found real personal value in Jules and those who had already shifted to alternatives.
  • Competitor comparisons appeared frequently, suggesting Jules is being actively benchmarked against other tools even among its remaining users.
Praise themeMentions
Compared to rivals1
Strong features1
Complaint themeMentions
AI quality2
Missing features2
Compared to rivals1
Poor support1

Discussion around Jules over the observed four-week window was sparse, totaling only five mentions, which itself became a recurring undercurrent in how commenters framed the product. Rather than enthusiastic debate, the tone carried a quiet unease, with several mentions circling the possibility that Jules had quietly stalled as a project. References to a changelog that had not moved past a version update from March, combined with an absence of announcements or visible development activity, fed a narrative of abandonment that colored nearly every other judgment.

Complaint themes dominated the conversation. AI quality drew the most concern, with at least one commenter describing the model's intelligence as lackluster after direct testing, framing the core offering as falling short of expectations set by competing tools. Competitor comparison appeared on both sides of the ledger, which introduced the clearest division in opinion. One commenter expressed genuine affection for the workflow Jules enables, describing real personal value in being able to direct coding tasks remotely and review pull requests quickly. That same commenter, however, noted the product felt frozen. Another commenter had already shifted to an alternative, citing better performance elsewhere even while remaining on a plan that included Jules as a perk.

The feature-missing theme reinforced the stagnation concern rather than pointing to specific absent capabilities, suggesting commenters felt the roadmap had stopped rather than that any single gap was disqualifying on its own. Support uncertainty added to the mood, with at least one commenter unsure whether Jules was actively maintained at all.

With only a single score data point available, no directional shift over time can be confirmed, but the tone of the discussion suggested a product that had interested people and then lost momentum in their perception.

AI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.

Member perspectives

Individual opinions from Pro members, posted over time. These are personal member views, not aggregated sentiment data.

Data summary

Total mentions analyzed (all time)
5
Mentions in selected period
5
Weeks in range
1
vs Coding average (47)
Below by 2
Pricing
Free tier; paid plans available
Sources
Hacker News (5)

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