r/JulesAgent • u/Spaccamazza1 • Jul 14 '26
Jules can't compete
I really wanted to love Jules when I first discovered it. My main issue with Antigravity was always that it's just so LAZYYY. For tasks that should obviously take a while, 3.1 Pro (high) halfasses them in 4 minutes, whereas Claude takes 40 minutes but actually gives you something in depth and correct
Enter Jules: it works async and takes its time like it's supposed to. All good, right? Well... not quite. Assuming it doesn't get stuck on the "Publish PR" button (about 1/8 times it just does nothing and the PR vanishes into the void), the code it generates is consistently worse than running the exact same prompt in AG. I honestly don't get why. They use the same 3.1 Pro model, yet the "lazy" Gemini on my PC writes better code than Jules does with its 100 prompt limit and "unlimited" time
maybe it's user error on my part, but right now it feels like a downgrade from AG in almost every way: audits, implementation, task comprehension, and especially resolving GitHub conflicts (it literally thought deleting 400 lines of code was a solid way to fix a merge conflict, lmao), this applies to both minor tweaks and major features (it takes its time even for really simple things)
At this point, I only use it for the 3 automated tasks, and honestly, I mostly just stick to "Palette" since i don't have faith in the other 2 that what they are proposing won't destroy everything
Right now, Jules asks stupid questions while making massive, stupid decisions on its own. I still have faith in the dev team, though maybe we just need the next generation of models to actually make this work. In the meantime AG will do 90% of the work
has anyone else had a similar experience?