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NoJules · 7 Aug 2025

I have tried this a few times, it's not there yet

majormajor on Hacker News

In the thread “Jules, our asynchronous coding agent”, replying to this comment

Helped: Blowing through huge backlogs of trivial simple small-context bugs faster.

Got in the way: Struggles with cross-cutting interactions, repeated mistakes, and context rot in large codebases.

… A lot of the skillsets are the same, only instead of having to persuade other teams you just write a deisgn doc and fire off a bunch of agents, review their work, and if you don't like their outputs, you can try again or drop down to manual coding. I have tried this a few times, it's not there yet. The failures are consistently-shaped enough to make we wonder about the whole LLM approach. …