Google’s new Jules AI agent will help developers fix buggy code

Google has announced an experimental AI-powered codification cause called “Jules” that tin automatically hole coding errors for developers. Jules was introduced today alongside Gemini 2.0, and uses the updated Google AI exemplary to make multi-step plans to code issues, modify aggregate files, and hole propulsion requests for Python and Javascript coding tasks successful GitHub workflows.

Microsoft introduced a akin acquisition for GitHub Copilot past year that tin admit and explicate code, alongside recommending changes and fixing bugs. Jules volition vie against Microsoft’s offering, and besides against tools similar Cursor and adjacent Claude and ChatGPT’s coding abilities. Google’s motorboat of a coding-focused AI adjunct is nary astonishment — CEO Sundar Pichai said successful October that much than a 4th of each caller codification astatine the institution is present generated by AI.

“Jules handles bug fixes and different time-consuming tasks portion you absorption connected what you really privation to build,” Google says successful its blog post. “This effort is portion of our semipermanent extremity of gathering AI agents that are adjuvant successful each domains, including coding.”

Developers person afloat power to reappraisal and set the plans created by Jules, earlier choosing to merge the codification it generates into their projects. The announcement doesn’t accidental that Jules volition spot bugs for you, truthful presumably it needs to beryllium directed to a database of issues that person already been identified to fix. Google besides says that Jules is successful aboriginal improvement and “may marque mistakes,” but interior investigating has shown it’s been beneficial for boosting developer productivity and providing real-time updates to assistance way and negociate tasks.

Jules is launching contiguous for a “select radical of trusted testers” according to Google, and volition beryllium released to different developers successful aboriginal 2025. Updates astir availability and however improvement is progressing volition beryllium disposable via the Google Labs website.