[timdumol]

I've tried using Jules for a side project, and the code quality it emits is much worse than GH Copilot (using Claude Sonnet), Gemini CLI, and Claude Code (which is odd, since it should have the same model as Gemini CLi). It also had a tendency to get confused in a monorepo -- it would keep trying to `cd backend && $DO_STUFF` even when it was already in backend, and iterate by trying to change `$DO_STUFF` rather than figure out that it's already in the backend directory.

[xnx]

> I've tried using Jules for a side project, and the code quality it emits is much worse than GH Copilot

It might be worth trying again.

"Jules now uses the advanced thinking capabilities of Gemini 2.5 Pro to develop coding plans, resulting in higher-quality code outputs"

[timdumol]

Ah, I missed that. I do vaguely remember that it used to use Flash, but I can't find where I saw it now. Thanks, I'll give it a shot!

[qingcharles]

I just tried Jules for the first time and it did a fantastic job on reworking a whole data layer. Probably better than I would have expected from Copilot. So.. I'm initially impressed. We'll see how it holds up. I was really impressed with Copilot, but after a lot of use there are times when it gets really bogged down and confused and you waste all the time you would have saved. Which is the story of AI right now.

[ttul]

I used it to make a small change (adding colorful terminal output) to a side project. The PR was great. I am seeing that LLM coding agents excel at various things and suck at others quite randomly. I do appreciate the ease of simply writing a prompt and then sitting back while it generates a PR. That takes very little effort and so the pain of a failure isn't significant. You can always re-prompt.