Say Goodbye to Google Jules

Google is well known for “killing” products when it decides they are no longer worth maintaining. It often does so with little regard for the people who still use them or for the passionate communities that have grown around them.

I have written about this phenomenon before, particularly in connection with one of the most sorely missed products, Google Reader. Google Stadia was another product that affected me directly. In that case, Google made the very respectable decision to reimburse users for their investment in the platform, including hardware that many of us still have today.

Today, I logged in to an application called Google Jules and found the following announcement prominently displayed at the top of the page: Jules will wind down on December 31, 2026. You have until November 11th to continue finishing up sessions. After the 11th of November, we will be turning it to read-only until end of year. Try using Google Antigravity for agentic development. [See more]. It makes sense that Google is moving users to Antigravity, which I use and quite like. What caught my attention this time was the timeline. I read the announcement today, November 11, 2026. It says that sessions would become read-only today. After a brief investigation, I realized that the original announcement had been posted on October 29, roughly two weeks earlier.

The takeaway is that shutting down products seems less of a problem now, even when users have barely any time to migrate. AI-based products are treated as ephemeral, short-lived, and constantly evolving. Perhaps that’s something to consider the next time you commit to a development platform.