Google's Jules: Autonomous Coding Agents Reshape Software Development

Resources

Books

• "The Pragmatic Programmer" - Mentioned as a foundational text for software engineering principles.

Videos & Documentaries

• "Stable Diffusion" - Discussed as the first generative AI moment for the speaker, sparking interest in AI coding agents.

Research & Studies

• "Cognition Suite Grep" - Mentioned as an example of using semantic search with embeddings as a tool alongside other command-line utilities.

Tools & Software

• "Jules" - Google's autonomous coding agent, discussed extensively as a product for building and running AI agents.
• "Gemini" - Google's AI model family, mentioned as the underlying technology for Jules and its CLI integration.
• "Gemini CLI" - A command-line interface for interacting with Gemini models, with plans for Jules integration.
• "GitHub Action" - Mentioned as a tool that can automatically merge Jules pull requests.
• "Cider" - Google's internal IDE with various capabilities for developers.
• "Bert" - A natural language processing model mentioned in the context of search and machine learning.
• "Grep" - A command-line utility for searching text, mentioned as a comparison to semantic search.
• "Glob" - A command-line utility for file searching, mentioned alongside grep.
• "VS Code Extension" - Discussed as a standard surface area for interacting with coding agents.
• "Cloud Code Web" - Mentioned for its teleport functionality to transfer code history.
• "Agent SDK" - Mentioned in relation to the auto-compaction for handoff mechanic.
• "Claude" - An AI model mentioned in the context of externalizing too much information.

Articles & Papers

• "The Pragmatic Programmer" - Mentioned as a foundational text for software engineering principles.

People Mentioned

• Jules - Mentioned as a guest and collaborator, associated with Google Labs and coding agents.
• Jensen Huang - Mentioned in the context of AI and its potential impact on software engineering jobs.
• Dharmesh Shah - Credited with coining the term "vibe coding" and influential in naming AI concepts.

Organizations & Institutions

• Google Labs - The research and development division at Google where Jules was developed.
• DeepMind - Google's AI research lab, with whom Google Labs collaborates closely.
• NYU - New York University, mentioned for its role in organizing hackathons.
• Columbia - Columbia University, mentioned for its role in organizing hackathons.
• Microsoft - Mentioned in relation to its conferences like Build and Ignite.
• Anthropic - Mentioned for pioneering the concept of computer use in AI.
• OpenAI - Mentioned for its tooling related to computer use in AI.

Courses & Educational Resources

• AI Engineer Code Summit - An event where Jed Borovik will be an MC, focusing on AI engineering.

Websites & Online Resources

• GitHub Universe - A conference where the podcast recording took place.
• YouTube - Mentioned as a platform where talks from the AI Engineer Code Summit are posted.

Other Resources

• HackNYU - A hackathon organized by NYU and Columbia.
• Cal Hacks - A hackathon mentioned in comparison to New York hackathons.
• AIE - AI Engineer Code Summit, discussed as a neutral industry gathering point.
• NeurIPS - An academic machine learning conference.
• ICML - An academic machine learning conference.
• Jevons Paradox - An economic concept applied to the demand for software.