Google Jules Review: The Async Coding Agent Worth $20/Month?
Google Jules queues coding tasks, runs them in a cloud VM, and opens PRs while you sleep. Free tier gives 15 tasks/day. Here's what worked and what didn't.
Google Jules queues coding tasks, runs them in a cloud VM, and opens PRs while you sleep. Free tier gives 15 tasks/day. Here's what worked and what didn't.
HackerOne paused payouts, Curl quit its bounty, Linux's security list is unmanageable. The AI vulnerability flood and the zero-days buried in the noise.
DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified at $1.74/M input tokens — 7x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7. Real benchmarks, costs, and safety gaps.
AI agent guardrails from 4 real production wipes — PocketOS, Replit, Amazon. Scoped tokens, destructive-action gates, isolated backups, plan-first mode.
Cursor Composer 2 ships at $0.50/M input — roughly 1/10 of Opus 4.6 — and beats Opus on Terminal-Bench. Then a developer found Kimi K2.5 in the model ID.
MemPalace's 100% LongMemEval claim was hand-tuned. The real 96.6% score still beats Mem0 and Zep for free. Honest verdict after running the benchmarks.
Apfel exposes Apple's hidden 3B on-device LLM from the command line. I tested it for shell scripting, summaries, and code. Here's what works.