Google's notice that it will shut down Jules, its asynchronous coding agent, drew a quick wave of reaction on X on October 29. The posts we read split into a few groups: people who saw it coming and filed it under Google's long list of retired products, users who say Jules did things Antigravity does not do yet, and developers who now want to know whether Antigravity, the product Google points them to, will run in the cloud the way Jules did.
The announcement came from the Jules account at 12:09 PM PT. By about 5:30 PM PT the post had 75,962 views, 791 likes, 105 replies and 92 quote posts. Hacker News had two small threads, one with three comments and one with one. Reddit cannot be read from our tools, so most reactions below come from X. For the dates and the export steps, see our news post: Google Is Shutting Down Jules, Its Coding Agent.
What Google said
The Jules changelog entry says that "as part of our work to unify our agentic coding efforts, Jules will wind down on December 31, 2026." Users have until November 11 to finish sessions, and after that Jules is read-only until the end of the year. The page adds an export that saves settings, environment variables, scheduled tasks, memories, setup scripts and session history to a local folder.
The X post framed the move as a merge: "We're working on bringing our learnings from Jules into @antigravity so you get the best of both worlds: autonomous remote background task execution and an agent-first development environment." Neither the post nor the changelog gives a date for that.
Another one for the graveyard
The first group shrugged. On Hacker News, fady0 wrote "Here we go again..." with a link to the Killed by Google site, and LiamPowell posted the same link in the other thread.
On X, @dhanyqaz called it "another one for the graveyard," and @luisnomad wrote: "The Google cemetery is getting crowded. I enjoyed Jules, I liked it better than Antigravity to be honest." @afdz_dev put it as advice: "Never get attached to any Google service." @kaluops did the math on lifespans: "jules launched in december 2024 and shuts down december 2026, is anyone keeping odds on how long antigravity gets."
In a quote post minutes after the notice, @seconds_0 wrote: "Inevitable killing. By virtue of having cool branding you knew it was gonna die."
People who will miss it
Another group said Jules was the best tool of its kind. @FishRaposo called it "The best cloud harness by a mile, especially for automations," and added that "Antigravity will have a lot to live up to." @_InYOB_ told the Jules account: "Jules is 90% of the reason I signed up for AI pro."
Three posts named specific features. @1dragon_xyz wrote "I especially love the prediodically scans and suggestions and PR from Jules," though the same reply called the move right "since I've been working in Antigravity and neglecting Jules because it's scattered." @Joedefendre said a favorite feature was "the Security PR," which "would do security scans landing PRs for you." On Hacker News, hjotha wrote: "no more 100 PRs a day for free. i'm so sad."
Why it was already fading, according to users
Some users said Jules had fallen behind on models. @solomonneas wrote that "it was already on life support," because "my jules model picker still tops out at gemini 3.1 pro and 3.6 flash, while gemini 4 argon is already in antigravity." @manitchahar made the same point: "We saw it coming cause it still uses gemini 3.6 flash." We did not check the Jules model picker ourselves. Our Gemini 4 Argon explainer covers the newer model.
@spooky3do said Jules "provided a lot of value to me," but "the models were not up to date and in some cases not strong enough for the tasks i gave to it so eventually i moved to codex and claude code and other services."
TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog), which tracks unreleased AI features, gave a timing theory: "I feel like it was unfortunate that Jules v2 got planned at a moment when AI super apps emerged and Google had to fight back with Codex." The same post says Antigravity "already has some traces of a new 'Chief of Staff' agent spotted earlier."
The cloud question
One practical worry was about where background work runs. Google's May 2025 beta post says Jules "clones your codebase into a secure Google Cloud virtual machine (VM)." Antigravity's docs list a desktop app, a CLI, IDE extensions and a Python SDK. The same page describes a Remote Control feature to "drive desktop & CLI sessions from any browser" and says the CLI runs in "local shells, remote cloud environments, and SSH sessions." It does not say whether Antigravity will run tasks on Google's own cloud machines the way Jules did.
@_InYOB_ replied to one post: "Issue is that there is now no cloud coding agent. Jules was excellent for that. Please Google look at Claude code web." @jj_kovacs wrote that "half of why i used async agents was not opening an editor at all," and that if kicking off work from an issue "still works without antigravity running locally, nobody will miss jules much."
Others welcomed the merge. @ArtemR wrote: "This is not a big surprise, given the two tools are so similar." @ibs4lif argued that "Antigravity it actually the product that succeeded over Jules" and that "the team is shipping features every week." Rody Davis (@rodydavis), whose X bio lists Staff DevRel at Google for Antigravity, shared the Jules post with a short "Update on Jules and Antigravity" note.
One short post came from someone with a Google past. Kath Korevec (@simpsoka), whose X bio lists Codex at OpenAI and previously Google, posted "Rip Jules" with the same squid emoji the Jules post ended with. That post had 8,483 views and 166 likes at about 5:30 PM PT. @cheicolate answered her: "Jules should have been the lead from get go, not antigravity."
The timeline and the export
A few posts focused on the dates. @farseen pointed out that "jules goes read-only on nov 11 even though the shutdown date is dec 31," so "anyone with background tasks still running there has 12 days, not two months." @SR37RM wrote: "Like damn not even 2 weeks' notice."
The export got a sarcastic read on Hacker News. Quoting Google's line that what users built "taught us where agentic development is headed," rvz wrote: "Traslation: Thank you for donating your .env, trade secrets and your source code to us to improve Google Antigravity." That is a joke at Google's expense, not a reported fact. The changelog does say the export includes environment variable values, and our news post covers how to keep that folder private.
@MadDeFientist had a broader take on async agents: "async background agents were the right bet. the part nobody solved was the review queue, an agent that opens 20 prs overnight just moves the bottleneck to you in the morning."
What it adds up to
The reaction was smaller than for a model launch, and the posts we read were more resigned than angry. The useful signal is in the specific asks. Jules users who stayed want a cloud agent they can start without an editor open, scheduled scans that open pull requests, and enough notice to move. Google has said Jules ideas are going into Antigravity, but has not said when. Users have until November 11 to finish sessions.
Sources
- Jules changelog: Jules Turndown (October 29, 2026)
- Jules (@julesagent) on X
- Google: Build with Jules, your asynchronous coding agent (May 20, 2025)
- Google Antigravity docs: overview
- llms.blog: Google Is Shutting Down Jules, Its Coding Agent
- Hacker News: Jules winding down on Dec 31, 2026
- Hacker News: Jules Turndown
- X posts: @dhanyqaz, @luisnomad, @afdz_dev, @kaluops, @seconds_0 (1), @seconds_0 (2), @FishRaposo, @_InYOB_ (1), @_InYOB_ (2), @1dragon_xyz, @Joedefendre, @solomonneas, @manitchahar, @spooky3do, @testingcatalog, @jj_kovacs, @ArtemR, @ibs4lif, @rodydavis, @simpsoka, @cheicolate, @farseen, @SR37RM, @MadDeFientist
