Google's Jules AI coding agent built a new feature I could actually ship - while I made coffee

Ziga Plahutar/Getty Images OK. Deep breath. This is surreal. I just added an entirely new feature to my software, including UI and functionality, just by typing four paragraphs of instructions. I have screenshots, and I'll try to make sense of it in this article. I can't tell if we're living in the future or we've just descended to a new plane of hell (or both). Let's take a step back. Google's Jules is the latest in a flood of new coding agents released just this week. Last week, I wrote about OpenAI Codex and Microsoft's GitHub Copilot Coding Agent, and ZDNET's Webb Wright wrote about Google's Jules. Also: The best AI for coding in 2025 All of these coding agents will perform coding operations on a GitHub repository. GitHub, for those who've been following along, is the giant Microsoft-owned software storage, management, and distribution hub for much of the world's most important software, especially open source code. The difference, at least as it pertains to this article, is t ... Read full article.