🤖 Trying out Jules. Next steps.

I continued to try out Jules, after npm was up.

Here is what I did and my observations.

💡 The idea
The idea was to generate a simple front-end UI with some on-demand casual games for kids. So I (and them) can come up with the game and AI assistant will implement it

⚙️How it works
* You create a new task, it suggests a plan to you. You accept the plan.
* Then in the virtual env which was setup for your task Jules does something to implement it. It creates files, moves them, installs packages, etc. (uses tools)
* Then you have a diff, you can review it visually and a button "publish the branch".
* If you publish it it will publish it to github.
* 📉 what I did not like, is that when you publish the branch, then make changes and push them back, then Jules does not pick them up. It still operates within the first checkout.

🧑‍💻Creating a react app
* Initially I asked Jules to create a React app, it created it (sort of). I asked to add tailwindcss. It did.
* I was able to run it on my local
* When I tried to deploy it to render.com , then the build failed
* I understood that Jules created pretty outdated React setup (react-scripts) and non-working tailwindcss integration (mainly because v3 vs v4 breaking changes). I had to learn what is wrong and integrate it myself, it took about an 1.5h.

🖼 UX
* The UI looks fine, but sometimes it does not refresh automatically, and you need to refresh the page to check if it finished the work
* The work itself takes long. And to me it is a cognitive issue with "thinking" models. It just feels boring to wait until they do something.
* Sometimes it did not finish. One time it worked for 20 minutes to say that it can do only half of the task and if I want to continue I need to ask again.

✅ Overall I think it made me faster for the MVP. But it also worked only because I could review the code and I know what I want to get and how it shall look like (from the code perspective). Here is the present result: https://aa-app.onrender.com/

I recommend to try, it's free and has limitation of 60 tasks per day. Which is enough. Because one task is one round of feature development (chat with model until you are happy with the results), and not one prompt.