Using Jules (google) for Julia

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Hi,

I have done some experiments with google jules https://jules.google/ (asynchronous coding agent) for Julia development. It is quite impressive and already helped me to code an interactive plotting function with PlotlyJS.jl

My advice if you want to try it are:

  • Start from an existing (can be empty and generated with pkgskeleton) github Julia repo.

  • Add a configuration file for the julia installation before starting the task

curl -fsSL https://install.julialang.org | sh -s -- -y
. /home/jules/.bashrc

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One of my first task was to ask for an interactive plot for comparing 2 temporal series a and b with a slider to select the time using PlotlyJS.jl. Here is what I got:

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and the generated function is here:

Have fun :wink:

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I have corrected the broken link to Jules in the post : thanks @Palli !

It maybe useful to emphasize that Jules is not a simple LLM coding assistant but actually test the proposed code and iterate on potential error messages on a dedicated VM (ubuntu) on google machines.

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Hi there! Recently I also tried Jules for the development and bug fixes for my Julia package, but running tests in Jules always went out of time so Jules simply decided to kill the testing job. Have you encountered similar issues?

As a comparison, running python package pytest is not an issue.

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Yes, it is not very reliable…

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I see there are some incompatibilities. I’m very surprised to see my posts being flagged. I’m scratching my head because I don’t see any reason for it. I won’t bother the community anymore. I’m happy to stay in touch with the people I’ve met over the years. Ideally by email or LinkedIn. Cheers. :- )