Jules: Google's Async Coding Agent Is Changing How We Think About AI and Software Development (opens in new tab)

There's a quiet architectural shift happening in how we build software, and it doesn't look like what most people expected. We've spent the last two years treating AI like a very fast autocomplete — a co-pilot sitting shotgun, responding the moment we type. Cursor, Copilot, Gemini Code Assist: all synchronous, all requiring you to stay in the loop, all fundamentally keeping you as the CPU driving execution. Jules breaks that model. Google's async coding agent, which went generally available i...