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Google Antigravity
https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravity https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTOVIGsqCuY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTOVIGsqCuY
- actionfromafar 11mo ago”We must also do Loveable”
- robofanatic 11mo agoSomething felt really "artificial" about that youtube video.
- Fysi 11mo agoLooks to be live but no content; OpenGraph description is "Google Antigravity - Build the new way".
- meetpateltech 11mo ago> Google Antigravity is an agentic development platform, evolving the IDE into the agent-first era. Antigravity enables developers to operate at a higher, task-oriented level by managing agents across workspaces, while retaining a familiar AI IDE experience at its core. Agents operate across the editor, terminal, and browser, enabling them to autonomously plan and execute complex, end-to-end tasks elevating all aspects of software development. via: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/google-antigravity/about/ https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/google-antigravity/about/
- 20k 11mo agoI have absolutely 0 idea why any developer would rely on any IDE produced by google. It'll be canned within 5 years max, with 3-4 seeming like a reasonable estimate of the lifespan of the product I've been using my current IDE for 17 years, and plan to continue using it for at least another 15
- CjHuber 11mo agoDo you really think antigravity will last longer than 1 year?
- NewsaHackO 11mo agoYes
- whs 11mo agoYou mean Android Studio will be canned in 2018 max with a reasonable estimate of 2016-2017?
- devsda 11mo agoIsn't Android Studio based on IntelliJ and not a product developed from ground up? And Android Studio has second order revenue from the playstore. I wouldn't be even surprised if internally the AS team's financials are counted under the Playstore umbrella.
- zamadatix 11mo agoAntigravity is based on VS Code, not designed from the ground up, and has second order revenue from the AI subscriptions (financials probably counted under the AI umbrella). I still wouldn't trust a Google product to stick around, but these hints aren't a reliable oracle either.
- devsda 11mo agoWhen AS was launched Android was the only other viable option and it is the same even today. I don't believe Google's AI products will reach and/or sustain the same dominance as Android. It is a product launched in the hype cycle of AI. Google has plenty of other products (launched during hype cycles) that are gathering dust. That's not a guaranteed signal that it will meet the same fate but its something strong enough to be wary of.
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- denysvitali 11mo agoSee the videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX-OpeNZYI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX-OpeNZYI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKQ9b4UMpGQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKQ9b4UMpGQ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967787
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- phplovesong 11mo agoFrom what i saw its yet an AI first text editor. Thats a hard pass for me.
- nasretdinov 11mo ago- A new "AI" IDE announced - It's VS Code Like clockwork!
- jakebasile 11mo agoHow many forks of VS Code am I supposed to have installed at this point?
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 11mo agoMy YC2026 startups are an AI agent that automatically manages your VSCode forks, and a public safety computer vision app for smart glasses that predicts whether someone can afford a lawyer based on their skin color
- collingreen 11mo agoThey'll have to compete with these other pending funded companies: - ai therapist for your ai agents - genetic ai agent container orchestration; only the best results survive so they have to fight for their virtual lives - prompt engineering as a service - social media post generator so you can post "what if ai fundamentally changes everything about how people interact with software" think pieces even faster - vector db but actually json for some reason (Edit: formatting)
- whstl 11mo agoDon't forget there's 2 or 3 of each in YC2026.
- bblb 11mo ago> genetic ai agent container orchestration; only the best results survive so they have to fight for their virtual lives AI Agent Orchestration Battle Bots. Old school VMs are the brute tanks just slowly ramming everybody off the field. A swarm of erratically behaving lightweight K8s Pods madly slicing and dicing everything coming on their way. Winner takes control of the host capacity. I might need this in my life.
- m-hodges 11mo agoWas expecting https://pypi.org/project/antigravity/ https://pypi.org/project/antigravity/
- bastawhiz 11mo agoNice, if I switch now it'll be killed in two to three years right around the time Zed has all the features that I want!
- guluarte 11mo agoand the difference from vscode is...?
- surgical_fire 11mo agoVS Code won't feature in Google Graveyard in the short term future.
- pharrington 11mo agoThis one forces you to log into your google account before you can use vscode!
- jasonjmcghee 11mo agoCurious if the name is a reference to https://xkcd.com/353/ https://xkcd.com/353/ > Come join us! Programming is fun again! It's a whole new world up here!
- benatkin 11mo agoThe name Bard didn't fly, so they went for literal flying instead.
- Thrymr 11mo agoI hope Google is at least acknowledging the origin of the name, even if they are not paying royalties to Randall Monroe.
- jasonjmcghee 11mo agoDon't take my random pondering as any kind of evidence
- tpoacher 11mo agoEither that or google sampled everything in the medicine cabinet
- TIPSIO 11mo agoI actually like the workflow they are suggesting. There's something there for sure: - Nano Banana => Mockup - Antigravity/IDE => Comments/note - Gemini => Turn to code - Antigravity/IDE => Adjust/code All on the same platform so can maximum automate / "agentic"
- dnw 11mo agoJules
- gnarlouse 11mo agoSo the whole world is a scam for your data now basically.
- Oarch 11mo agoNeigh, a Trojan Horse.
- collingreen 11mo agoThis pun made me actually laugh out loud. I almost lost some coffee.
- gnarlouse 11mo agoSomething something, "my kingdom for a horse." Obligatory upvote, wp
- monegator 11mo agoWow this page is an endless source of memes and broken UX madness Google at its finest
- spuz 11mo ago> Your new focus is architecting the solution, not implementing every single step. So congratulations, you have been elevated to a manager of agents. I'm not sure many engineers will welcome this "promotion".
- AstroBen 11mo agoI don't think this is speaking to the engineers
- spuz 11mo agoThen who are they targeting? Who else would currently be "implementing every single step"?
- sp4cec0wb0y 11mo agoProject managers and higher level management.
- elif 11mo agoFew horse racers became automobile racers. If existing engineers don't change it doesn't matter because new engineers will take their place.
- vosper 11mo agoHorse racing didn’t go away and there are more people who race horses professionally than who race cars.
- prodigycorp 11mo agoWhy is google so bad at product branding and strategy? My complaint is aesthetic: why would you name your product a five-syllable word??
- hobs 11mo agoIts clearly a reference to the xkcd comic which does have mindshare.
- nfw2 11mo agoThank you for the demonstrating the reasoning that leads to these decisions.
- hobs 11mo agoThis made me laugh, I assume you are calling me an old fogey and I will be glad to take it. This is why they don't let me near the marketing stuff.
- paganel 11mo agoWhich comic would that be? Later edit: Probably this one [1], which is par for the course for Alphabet, they're, conceptually, still living in the early 2010s, when this stuff was culturally relevant. [1] https://xkcd.com/353/ https://xkcd.com/353/
- igleria 11mo agowell they sure seem to make product naming after going through the whole medicine cabinet too, just like the comic
- shwaj 11mo agoInformally, people will way “antigrav”.
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- roman_soldier 11mo agoAnother google product, there are too many and which ones will be around in a year or two?
- ForHackernews 11mo agoLoads a blank white page and breaks the back button in Firefox. Console error: > Loading module from “https://antigravity.google/main-74LQFSAF.js https://antigravity.google/main-74LQFSAF.js” was blocked because of a disallowed MIME type (“text/html”).
- Slogsworth 11mo agoI recognize the guys in the video, they were in marketing videos for the Windsurf IDE before its founding team was cannibalized by/absorbed into Google.
- phyzome 11mo agoIt's really kind of pathetic how we live in a future where "antigravity" is a text editor that lies to you, "hoverboards" are one-wheeled electric skateboards that burn your house down, and... well, can't think of a third thing at the moment, but you know the vibe. Lotta people mining science fiction for cool names and then applying them to their crappy products, cheapening the source ideas.
- seanhunter 11mo agoA third thong could be “self driving cars” are cars that you have to stay alert and in full control of at all times. We are in the future, it’s just a much more rubbish version than people imagined in scifi
- CuriouslyC 11mo agoNeat, but the world doesn't need another IDE, and people want choice. Provide tools that plug into open workflows and step back.
- craftkiller 11mo agoI don't get it. It's a completely blank web page. Did they not test in firefox? Ah Google misconfigured their web server: > Loading module from “https://antigravity.google/main-74LQFSAF.js https://antigravity.google/main-74LQFSAF.js” was blocked because of a disallowed MIME type (“text/html”). Edit: And a couple minutes later, it is now working. Guess Google is reading HN.
- jkrems 11mo agoLooks like it's back again!
- mentalgear 11mo agoHonestly, the full page doesn't give you much more. Not a SINGLE product image. All paragraphs about "agentic" blah-blah you have read 100s of times by now - I do not see how this is anything different from all the other AI VS Code forks, besides that it comes with Gemini from the start.
- thekevan 11mo ago"Not a SINGLE product image." But there is a 13 minute demo video. https://antigravity.google/product https://antigravity.google/product
- halflife 11mo agoSeems like they jumped the gun on the website release, the first version I saw was a wall of text, now it has photos and videos. Maybe they have an agentic CICD
- FuriouslyAdrift 11mo agoThey're blitzing all media with a Gemini 3 push, it seems.
- yawnr 11mo agoCan’t even scroll on Firefox mobile lol
- dehugger 11mo agoNice to see that it's not locked to just Gemini models
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- dehugger 11mo agoNice that you can use non-Gemini models with it
- andrewk17 11mo agocan't get past the "Setting up your account" step atm
- rco8786 11mo agosame just hanging on the spinner
- peterldowns 11mo agosame here, hope they fix this soon
- lefstathiou 11mo agoSame. I wonder if it is because I'm signing in with my Google Apps for business account.
- foofoo12 11mo agoI worked in a factory one summer when I was a teenager. It was a totally brain dead work, but the morale was good. The workers weren't unhappy. I'm concerned that the new role of "manager of agents" (as google puts it) will be a soul destroying brain dead work and the morale won't be good.
- oytis 11mo agoHaven't we got enough of new eras yet?
- klysm 11mo agoNo the investment amount demands a new era per week
- coffeebeqn 11mo agoEach VSCode fork with some random AI junk slapped on will be a new era! I can’t imagine how many eras behind I’m at this point
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- ayhanfuat 11mo agoOn the pricing page it says that for public preview they are offering a free individual plan with "generous rate limits". I gave it an HTML file and asked it to create Jinja templates from it and 2 minutes later (still planning, no additional prompt) I got this: > Model quota limit exceeded. You have reached the quota limit for this model.
- riskassessment 11mo ago> html Would be willing to bet this is the issue. Adding html files to context for gemini models results in a ton of token use.
- gcr 11mo agowhy? EDIT: why must users care?
- SPICLK2 11mo agohttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
- croes 11mo agoThe accepted answer is one that doesn’t care about the questioner‘s use case and instead gives a pretty excessive "Don‘t do it"
- nateb2022 11mo agoI went ahead and downloaded it, it looks to be a VSCode fork very similar to Cursor, with support for the following models: - Gemini 3 Pro (High) - Gemini 3 Pro (Low) - Claude Sonnet 4.5 - Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking) - GPT-OSS 120B (Medium)
- koakuma-chan 11mo agoOh no, not another VSCode fork...
- rvz 11mo agoMany software engineering principles have been broken. Google using Electron tells us that quality control is completely out of the window. Unbelievable.
- user34283 11mo agoI tried writing a native Windows app using WinUI 3. I wasted a day on trying to get some PNGs to render correctly, but no matter the config I used, the colors came out wrongly oversaturated. I used Tauri with a WebView, and the app was rendering the images perfectly fine. On top of that the UI looked much better, and I was done in half the time I spend trying to fix the rendering issue in WinUI 3. Never again will I go native.
- sirwhinesalot 11mo agoTo be fair WinUI3 is particularly bad. If you're forced to install a 100MB runtime anyway, might as well make that runtime be a browser.
- user34283 11mo agoSince Tauri uses the system's WebView, it shouldn't be that big. The docs say a minimal app could be 600 KB.
- mccoyb 11mo ago> Bajillions of dollars invested in the development of some of the most powerful computational artifacts to date. > Fork VS Code, add a few workflow / management ideas on top. > "Agentic development platform" I'm Jack's depressed lack of surprise. Please someone, make me feel something with software again.
- collingreen 11mo agoThere is cool stuff out there! Look beyond the companies with $B valuations and you can find smart, passionate people making neat stuff.
- conartist6 11mo agoChallenge accepted
- rglover 11mo agoIf you want to feel something with software, leave the industry and never look back, saving programming as something you do for your own joy/reward (I'm not being hyperbolic—I'd argue we're in the early days of the web's "dark ages"). Unfortunately, once money came into the picture, quality, innovation, and anything resembling true progress flew out the window.
- dangus 11mo agoArguably this is like every other automation in the Industrial Revolution but this time for knowledge workers. The masses will get their metaphorical fake leather belts made by slave labor operating machines and won’t know better. A few artisans will make very little money making the real thing manually, mostly for their own enjoyment. This is assuming AI can actually be made to lower knowledge work’s training/education requirements, and that debate is still ongoing.
- surgical_fire 11mo ago> Please someone, make me feel something with software again. Work with what you love, and you will never love anything again.
- ports543u 11mo agoProgram not needed.
- msci100 11mo agoSo this is Google's version of Windsurf's Wave 10 before the whole team got poached? https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-10-browser https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-10-browser Trying to understand how this is anything net new in the space.
- Namahanna 11mo agoLooks to be. The UI has almost the exactly the same bits, and I even got 'Cascade' references as using it.
- Yeroc 11mo agoI haven't used Windsurf (been using Claude Code and similar). Does it provide an Agent Manager window/view? This to me looks more useful to me than the browser integration piece.
- antimora 11mo agoWhy is scrolling modified on this page? I how to disable it?
- antgonzales 11mo agoCame here to say this, it's super frustrating.
- meetpateltech 11mo agoPut this in your browser console to force default scrolling var css = 'body { height: auto !important; overflow: auto !important; } .smooth-scroll-wrapper { transform: none !important; position: static !important; } div[style*="position: fixed"] { position: static !important; overflow: visible !important; inset: auto !important; }'; var style = document.createElement('style'); style.innerHTML = css; document.head.appendChild(style); console.log("Default scroll forced.");
- Barbing 11mo agoThank you. Seems the website didn't like this btw, Safari macOS. Forced return to top of page when scrolling too fast.
- phantasmish 11mo agoGoogle likes to fuck with basic browser functionality for some reason. Scrolling, sometimes also how “click” intents through touch are triggered (that is, using js listeners for touch events instead of watching for the browser to communicate a “click” on an element; this does usability-killing shit like make a touch-to-stop-scrolling get interpreted as a click on whatever happens to be under your finger). I have no idea why they do this, but they do it a lot, so it must be a cultural thing. And I don’t mean like some designers will highjack scroll to deliver a different experience like slide-like transitions or something (which may or may not be, differently, awful) but they’ll override it just to give you ordinary scrolling, except much worse (as on this page). Seems like a lot of work to do just to make something shittier, but what do I know, I probably can’t implement a* on a whiteboard from memory or whatever.
- jihadjihad 11mo ago> Spin up agents to tackle routine tasks that take you out of your flow, such as codebase research, bug fixes, and backlog tasks. The software of the future, where nobody on staff knows how anything is built, no one understands why anything breaks, and cruft multiplies exponentially. But at least we're not taken out of our flow!
- SR2Z 11mo agoIf you're building something new you'll need some skilled people around
- bakies 11mo agoAfter a bunch of people leave the company it's already like nobody knows how anything is built. This seems like a good thing to accelerate understanding a codebase.
- skeeter2020 11mo agoit's funny - nervous funny, not haha funny - that you think drawing a real issue like this out into the open would focus an organization on solving it.
- onion2k 11mo agoThere is a lot more money in selling a tool to manage a problem rather than solve a problem.
- cactusplant7374 11mo agoAgents pretty good at describing how a particular feature works. It's not as dire as you make it seem.
- bakies 11mo agothat's what i mean
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- skerit 11mo agoThey even packaged it for Linux.
- acedTrex 11mo agoOh cool another ide for programming... aaaand its a vscode fork. I dont know what i expected tbh
- denysvitali 11mo agoWhen it starts it prints: Using Cloud Code URL: https://daily-cloudcode-pa.sandbox.googleapis.com https://daily-cloudcode-pa.sandbox.googleapis.com
- galaxyLogic 11mo agoIf I use this does it mean Google has access to all my code and it may popup as"AI generated" in someone else's code?
- dboreham 11mo agoThat's not quite how LLMs work.
- BiteCode_dev 11mo agoNot but you can be quite sure somewhere deep inside the TOS there is a line saying their telemetry swallow your soul. If not, it will be added. It's google, that's what they do.
- Workaccount2 11mo agoGenerally if you are paying full price (paying per token), then it's not used for training. If you are not paying, or paying a consumer level price ($20/mo) you will be trained on. ETA: In the terms they say they use your data because "free" is the only option available in preview. However it does say you can disable sharing in your settings...
- tmikaeld 11mo agoThere is a setting to disable telemetry, unclear what this means though.
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- pulkitsh1234 11mo agoSeems like they are trying to attack both Cursor and Lovable at the same time...nice !
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- BiteCode_dev 11mo agoLooks great, won't touch since they are probably going to do a switcheroo or a shutdown as usual. And of course I would need to look at all the implications of spying, being locked out of google account and absence of support that are google amo. No time for that. Not for them.
- bluerooibos 11mo agoRead the title, got excited. Read the page.. ah well, guess we'll have to wait another while for FTL travel.
- 0xf00ff00f 11mo agoSame, I thought they had discovered cavorite with their quantum computer or something.
- torginus 11mo agoI don't want to hate on this but I remember last week, when as a backend developer doing frontend, I spent about 20 minutes prompting Claude Sonnet in a loop trying to build a landing page for a new feature. The task was to put create a header, putting the company logo in the corner and the text in the middle. The resulting CSS was an abomination - I threw it all away and rewrote it from scratch (using my somewhat anemic CSS knowledge), ending up with like 3 selectors with like 20 lines of styles in total. This made me think that 1: CSS and the way we do UI sucks, I still don't get why don't we have a graphical editor that can at least do the simple stuff well. 2: when these model's don't wanna do what you want them to the way you want them, they really don't wanna. I think AI has shown us there's a need for a new generation of simple to write software and libraries, where translating your intent into actual code is much simpler and the tools actually help you work instead of barely allowing to fight be all the accidental complexity. We were much closer to this reality back in the 90s when you opened up a drag and drop UI editor (like VB6, Borland Delphi, Flash), wrote some glue code and out came an .exe that you could just give to people. Somewhere along the way, the cool kids came up with the idea that GUIs are bad, and everything needs to go through the command line. Nowadays I need a shell script that configures my typescript CDK template (with its own NPM repo), that deploys the backend infra (which is bundled via node), the database schema, compiles the frontend, and puts the code into the right places, and hope to god that I don't run into all sorts of weird security errors because I didn't configure the security the way the browser/AWS/security middleware wanted to.
- ninetyninenine 11mo ago>Somewhere along the way, the cool kids came up with the idea that GUIs are bad, and everything needs to go through the command line. It's important for people to feel like "hackers" that is the primary reason why command line sort of exploded among devs. Most devs will never admit this... they may not even realize it, but I think this is the main reason it went big. The irony is that the very thing that makes devs feel like "hackers" is the very thing that's enabling agentic AI and making developers get all resistant because they're feeling dumber.
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- aeternum 11mo agoProduct leaders that apply world-changing technology breakthrough names to their yet-another cloned SaaS product deserve more shame. Antigravity would be a world-changing technology. This isn't.
- stavros 11mo agoWait until you see Google Perpetual Motion Machine, their appointment-booking virtual assistant.
- crazygringo 11mo agoWhy? There's nothing wrong with metaphor. And agentic coding is about working at a much higher conceptual level. Further from the ground. Antigravity is a functional metaphor. My only issue with it is that it's too long at five syllables, and "anti-" is an inherently negative connotation. I'm guessing this will eventually get renamed if it gets popular, much like Bard was.
- brazukadev 11mo agoThey should not be too metaphorical when naming a clone, tho.
- crazygringo 11mo agoWhy not? And clone of what?
- nonameiguess 11mo agoAs the parent said, actual anti-gravity is world-changing technology. It's telling the very laws of nature to go fuck themselves, you're gonna do what you want, even if all of known physics says it's impossible. Working at a higher conceptual level is just project management. You're the legislator giving out unfunded mandates rather than the agency staff that has to figure out how to comply. There's power there, but it isn't anti-gravity. That said, I suspect this is really meant to allude to https://xkcd.com/353/ https://xkcd.com/353/.
- robowo 11mo agoOh no. Not another VSCode fork…
- Fraaaank 11mo agoAnyone else stuck on 'setting up your account'?
- ayhanfuat 11mo agoMy guess is it fails if you use a workspace account. I was able to use it with my personal Google account.
- Fraaaank 11mo agoHmm that does indeed seem to be the case.
- kUdtiHaEX 11mo agoDoesn’t work with a workspace account for me but it does work with my private account
- om42 11mo agoYes, its also failing on my workspace account but worked on my personal. Might be a bug or a delayed deployment for workspaces b/c it might need to be "enabled" by admins?
- silveraxe93 11mo agoNeed to use a personal account. Check the first question in the FAQ: https://antigravity.google/docs/faq https://antigravity.google/docs/faq
- dannyfritz07 11mo agoI'm not using a workspace account and am unable to get past this step.
- dannyfritz07 11mo agoOh well. Uninstalled. This was my first experience doing software development guided by AI. Doesn't seem like a tool that will serve me well in the long run.
- wiseowise 11mo agoWhat the hell is going on with scrolling on their website?
- quinnjh 11mo agoyeah... almost completely broken on my iphone. something tells me they used antigravity to vibe the website. would explain other issues mentioned like vim keybindings being ignored. ..."Youre absolutely right! I did mess up the internals of that feature and incorrectly reported that it works. let me try again..."
- world2vec 11mo agoAm I the only one stuck in the "Setting Up Your Account" loading screen?
- philmo1 11mo agosame
- kUdtiHaEX 11mo ago2020: every day a new JS framework is announced 2024: every day a new Chrome fork browser is announced 2025: every day a new AI IDE vscode fork is announced
- pooyamo 11mo ago>vscode fork I wonder why they are not trying to fixup something based on their own GUI stacks like Flutter or Compose Multiplatform. It seems only Zed is truly innovating in this space.
- fooqux 11mo agoWell it's a helluva lot faster to make for one. For two, just about everyone knows how to navigate in vscode by now. Reducing the barrier of entry has obvious advantages.
- koiueo 11mo agoI have Cursor at work. The only element of the interface I'm using (and know how to use) is the chat window. IMO, it's an absolutely crappy IDE, crappy editor, with absolutely incomprehensible hostile UI. I have almost two decades of experience with Vim, Emacs and IntelliJ. FWIW, I was able to easily find my ways in helix, kakoune and Zed.
- samsmith4 11mo agoReally? Can you say what you hate it about it pls
- koiueo 11mo agoFrom the top of my head in no specific order - Icons on the toolbar in the left panel have no labels or even tooltips. No way to know what they do without clicking and checking. - Space in the file explorer in the left panel opens a file (haven't noticed such behavior in other editors -- totally unexpected). - Maybe that's the artifact of me installing Vim plugin, but Keyboard shortcuts displayed in the main menu don't do what they say they do. - It often offers installing some plugins, and I've absolutely no idea why, and what will happen if I do or if I don't. I'm talking about Cursor, which I assume is exactly like VS Code. Tried VS Code only once very long ago.
- nthypes 11mo agoIt's a shame not even mention the amazing work of VSCode.
- xnx 11mo agoThe VSCode homepage does not mention Chromium or Electron.
- brazukadev 11mo agoIt might sound smart your defense of Google but VSCode is not a fork or electron and chromium, there's a lot of work there, not just clicking a fork button
- karlkloss 11mo agoFinally! Affordable antigravity!
- xinghai 11mo agoAnyone got stuck on the "Setting Up Your Account" page ?
- egypturnash 11mo agoDid they build this site with Antigravity because it sure is broken on my iPad.
- marstall 11mo agoI don't get how these agents can work when even Claude Sonnet 4.5 (for example) needs a lot of hand-holding for basic, simple bugfixing stuff. Wouldn't the agents just be huffing and puffing their way off the rails all the time?
- sippeangelo 11mo ago> Neither engenders user trust in the work that the agent undertook. Antigravity provides context on agentic work at a more natural task-level abstraction, with the necessary and sufficient set of artifacts and verification results, for the user to gain that trust. I'm going to need an AI summary of this page to even start comprehending this... It doesn't help that the scrolling makes me nauseous, just like real anti-gravity probably would.
- thisisit 11mo agoWritten by AI now summarise and explained by AI.
- dannyfritz07 11mo agowow, you weren't kidding about the scroll induced nausea.
- roncesvalles 11mo agoThen there's this: "A more intuitive task-based approach to monitoring agent activity, presenting you with essential artifacts and verification results to build trust." The whole thing around "trust" is really weird. Why would I as a user care about that? It's not as if LLMs are perfect oracles and the only thing between us and a brave new world is blind trust in whatever the LLM outputs.
- TheRoque 11mo agoI'd say that because right now, verifying the LLM output (meaning: not trusting it) is a huge bottleneck (rightfully so). I guess they are trying to convince people that this bottleneck is no more, with this IDE.
- titanomachy 11mo agoTranslation: "don't trouble your little brain actually trying to read the code that our model produced. we can show you pictures of the output instead."
- irilesscent 11mo agoSeems interesting, makes for the second vscode clone with ai google has made. The demo they showed in the video avoided showing code so I guess thats what they're aiming for. Although when they mentioned you can easily verify code quality by looking at end product screenshots it felt like they don't know what 'code' quality means.
- juancn 11mo agoHow long until it's killed? I mean, google doesn't have the greatest track record. Also, why does that site's scroll behavior is so weird? Just use the browser's default for Ford's sake!
- dboon 11mo agoIt’s…a VSCode fork? Really? What has become of Google? Ten years ago, when I was getting into the world of software, there was still an aura about them. They built everything in this huge monorepo, and it worked. They were this deeply technical company for whom it seems anything could be done. And now they can’t even ship a desktop app without forking VSCode? Look, I get it. There’s this huge ecosystem. Everyone uses it. I’m not saying it’s damning or even bad to fork it. But why is this being painted as something revolutionary? It’s a reskin of all the other tools which are variations on the same theme, dressed up in business speak (an agent-first UX!). I’m sure it’s OK. I downloaded it. The default Tokyo Night theme is unusable; the contrast can’t be read. I picked Vim bindings, but as soon as I tried to edit a file I noticed that was ignored. What happened? Is this how these beautiful, innovative companies are bound to end up?
- koakuma-chan 11mo agoThey should've made an ACP server https://agentclientprotocol.com https://agentclientprotocol.com
- dboon 11mo agoYeah. I really like opencode, which provides an ACP.
- throwacct 11mo agoThis. I don't think it'll move the needle. I already use vscode with copilot and it's "good enough".
- NewsaHackO 11mo agoI can see why people don’t release stuff on a permissive lisense anymore. It is absolutely insane that google is even allowed to do something like this.
- mrzool 11mo agoI wonder how many meetings where necessary to come up with that name
- esafak 11mo agohttps://xkcd.com/353/ https://xkcd.com/353/
- rounakdatta 11mo agoVim mode isn't working, oh no!
- josvdwest 11mo agoyeah I also cannot get Vim to work in Antigravity?
- mohsen1 11mo agoThis is the fruit of Windsurf brain-drain and I think it might be better than what's out there since those guys got to start from scratch from everything they learned building Windsurf
- xnx 11mo agoI forgot all about Windsurf from ... 4 months ago. The pace is crazy.
- zb3 11mo agoNice demo, but they didn't say the most important thing - how much did Gemini API calls in that demo really cost? How much tokens were consumed? I know there's a "free plan with generous rate limits" but it's obvious that they're losing money there.
- ChrisArchitect 11mo agoBlog post: https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravity https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravi...
- everyone 11mo agoMy experience with GPT and Claude, is that they are fantastic for learning something brand new to me, as a kind of tutor.. But for writing code in some domain I am good in, they are pretty much useless.. I would spend a lot longer struggling to get something that barely functions from them VS writing it myself, and the one I write myself will be terse and maintainable + if it has bugs they will be like obvious ones, not insane ones that a human would never do. Even just when getting them to write individual functions with very clear and small scopes.
- zb3 11mo agoToo bad they never show these magic AI-Assisted tools being used to fix real-world bugs / implement feature requests in their open source GH repositories. What about a demo that shows how this can be used to fix for example https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/24792 https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/24792?
- jimmar 11mo agoI installed it, entered one prompt, clicked the "Proceed" button, and got "Model quota limit exceeded." Those quota limits brought me back down to earth quickly.
- qayxc 11mo agoEspecially since: There is currently no support for: Paid tiers with guaranteed quotas and rate limits Bring-your-own-key or bring-your-own-endpoint for additional rate limits Organizational tiers (self-serve or via contract) So basically just another case of vendor lock-in. No matter whether the IDE is any good - this kills it for me.
- bufunobhmut 11mo agoThe amount of New Eras stuffed into New Eras is too damn high!
- hugs 11mo ago""Autonomously, an Antigravity Agent writes code for a new frontend feature, uses the terminal to launch localhost, and actuates the browser to test that the new feature works." very interesting times; i'm glad to see browser automation becoming more mainstream as part of the ai-assisted dev loop for testing. (disclosure: started the selenium project, now working on something similar for a vibe coding context)
- quinnjh 11mo agois that "vibium" ? as someone who tried setting up selenium in a workflow im definitely interested.
- hugs 11mo agoyup, vibium!
- mhl47 11mo agoMost people are missing the point here. Testing the GUI/feature more reliable is something that Gemini 3 could unlock (looking at the ScreenSpot-Pro benchmark and its general improvement on visual understanding). At least for the (hobby-)projects I attempted this was really a bottleneck having to always test the GUI after each change as its quite often breaking something.
- bsimpson 11mo agoCan we mark this as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968065
- lucideer 11mo agoReally hope the quality of the IDE is better than the website...
- uejfiweun 11mo agoTheory: the naming of this product is strategic. Google's goal is to push something else above "Google antitrust" in the autocomplete.
- esafak 11mo agoIt's just an xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/353/ https://xkcd.com/353/
- brazukadev 11mo agoWouldn't that have the opposite effect, now every person googling for Google antigravity will see the second suggestion as Google antitrust
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- sangeeth96 11mo agoWith all due to respect to the folks working on Antigravity, this feels like a vibe-coded VSCode fork to me. Font sizes, icon sizes, panel sizes are all over the place (why?). To top it all off, the first request just failed with overload/quota exceeded errors (understandable, but still). Looks like I'll wait to see if Google cares about putting the polish into a VSCode fork that at least comes close to what Cursor did.
- fhinkel 11mo agoThe UI is certainly buggy, and things are getting fixed all the time. Guess it was more a "let people try the agent manager" instead of overfocusing on looks.
- amsterdorn 11mo ago> feels like a vibe-coded VSCode fork That's 100% what it is, and rushed at that. Competition is (generally) a good thing though, only time can tell which IDE comes out on top.
- zkmon 11mo agoThe name sounds like it is not going to stick around for long.
- MeetingsBrowser 11mo agoA product name with five syllables is doomed.
- nthypes 11mo agoThis is a vibe-coded VSCode fork. In a simple task, I got overload/quota exceeded errors with horrible error handling. lol
- alwinaugustin 11mo agoSame for me also. I have Gemini Pro subscription, still it is showing quota exceeded error.
- ivanjermakov 11mo agodupe https://antigravity.google/ https://antigravity.google/
- rglover 11mo agoWe have a real, serious problem when even Google (presumably with a large share of the world's engineering might) is just forking VSCode.
- barbazoo 11mo agoWith every AI VSCode fork we get closer to the bubble popping.
- raincole 11mo agoReusing open-source code is a "real, serious problem" now...?
- parliament32 11mo agoWait till you hear about how much Linux they use.
- mrweasel 11mo agoSomething incredibly weird is going on in the "AI space", everyone seems to believe that they need their own browser and IDE. All of them are just forks of each other, so why aren't they extensions or plugins? I can't really explain what the issue is, I'd assume it's about lock in, but I don't see a VS Code fork or yet another Chromium browser being something that a person couldn't easily replace with another similar fork, but with a different AI. It that the pitch internally? Lock users into a browser or IDE, so they'll be forced to use a certain AI?
- rglover 11mo ago> It that the pitch internally? Lock users into a browser or IDE, so they'll be forced to use a certain AI? Shrugs that's the only reason that makes any sense short of they're just being blindly mimetic (which, let's be honest, isn't outside of the realm of possibility these days).
- balls187 11mo agoOkay, maybe I'm stupid, but the demo video included pasting and API key into the chat window. That seems bad.
- fosterfriends 11mo agoAnyone else getting this error: "Agent execution terminated due to model provider overload. Please try again later."
- keepamovin 11mo agoYes I just tried GP3H and got this. GP3L is fine tho. I like this tool. edit: Scratch that, GP3L is erroring out too. Global hug I guess. I still like this.
- efields 11mo agoMacOS/Safari User here. Stuck on 'Setting Up Your Account' once I've authorized it in the browser. /shrug
- bgrainger 11mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968731 Why can I not authenticate into Google Antigravity? Google Antigravity is currently available for non-Workspace personal Google accounts in approved geographies. Please try using an @gmail.com email address if having challenges with Workspace Google accounts (even if used for personal purposes). https://antigravity.google/docs/faq https://antigravity.google/docs/faq
- rkomorn 11mo agoI love how being a paying Workspace customer for a decade or more has actually locked me out of so many Google products and features. Not that I have any desire to try this at this point, but it's always felt ironic.
- efields 11mo agoThanks. Actually did use my personal account and got the issue nonetheless.
- haberdasher 11mo agoSame
- voxmatt 11mo agoSame
- ed 11mo agoTo save others the trouble, it doesn't matter whether you use Chrome or Safari for the auth flow. It's broken on both. (I'm using a personal @gmail account.)
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- bdn_ 11mo agoJust from the name, I thought this was going to be Google's official take on the classic "Google Gravity" site from ages ago: https://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google-gravity/index.html https://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google-gravity... I used to love leaving that site open on public PCs and watching the reactions that resulted :)
- giancarlostoro 11mo agoI just have zero faith in Google. How long until we hear that someone mysteriously got banned by Google (as we see on HN every few months? it feels like it anyway) and hear about how now they have no AI tooling etc etc etc because its all married to their Google Account. Additionally... Google Code was shut down in 2016? I have zero confidence in such a user hostile company. They gave you a Linux phone, they extended it, and made it proprietary. They gave you a good email account, extended it and made it proprietary. They took away office software from you via Google Docs, so now you don't even own the software they do. No thanks.
- vitaflo 11mo agoA 5 syllable name for a product makes me wonder wtf the marketing team is doing.
- ddp26 11mo agoThis whole blog post is seemingly about Google, not about the user. "Why We Built Antigravity" etc. "We want Antigravity to be the home base for software development in the era of agents" - cool, why would I as the user care about that?
- wiseowise 11mo agoYou wouldn’t. It’s made to suck out investor money and show that google does something, not to actually bring value. My crystal ball says it will be shutdown next year.
- evandrofisico 11mo agoMost of the AI products are not for the end user, they are just signaling shareholders and possible investors that the company is on the hype.
- rvnx 11mo agoThere is also mechanism inside Google that rewards teams that launches new products, more than the teams that actually maintain existing ones.
- vecter 11mo agoThis kind of cynicism is wild to me. Of course most AI products (and products in general) are for end users. Especially for a company like Google--they need to do everything they can to win the AI wars, and that means winning adoption for their AI models.
- flipgimble 11mo agohttp://killedbygoogle.com/ http://killedbygoogle.com/ - most Google products are for the temporary career advancement of some exec or product lead. Their only real product is advertising, everything else is a pretense to capture users attention and behaviors that they can auction off.
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- qoez 11mo agoI probably wouldn't have been drawn to coding if I was young these days based on the same motivations that led me to venture into it as a teen.
- bobsomers 11mo agoAnother Google product whose launch will be used to justify somebody's promotion, only to be left for dead only a few months later after said promoted person moves on to something else. Why would I even bother getting mildly invested in this when the product launch/promotion incentive structure at Google is so well known?
- gloosx 11mo agoreads title Wow was google researching some kind of anti-gravity device behind the curtains for real and then dropped it out of nowhere? Ah damn, yet another ai-assisted-something. Crap.
- arbuge 11mo agoI've clocked out on agentic AI IDEs. Not installing anymore until I hit an obvious wall with my current ones.
- AbraKdabra 11mo agoI mean ok, another VSCode fork, but am I the only one seeing the .google TLD?
- greatgib 11mo agoAnyone want to bet how long this product will last before being killed? From looking at the frontpage, my bet is 2 years at most.
- mike_ivanov 11mo agoNew Era. A New - think about it for a sec - Era.
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- Aperocky 11mo agoMeanwhile I'm still on my trusty vim and letting the AI do work separately in another CLI.
- koakuma-chan 11mo agoI moved from Vim to Zed recently.
- china 11mo agoI enjoy that the post-login confirmation page (https://antigravity.google/auth-success https://antigravity.google/auth-success) still says "Docs | Twitter"
- israrkhan 11mo agowhy it could not be a VS Code extension?
- andy_ppp 11mo agoI enjoyed Theo’s take on this https://youtube.com/watch?v=8dTN4PBD2rg https://youtube.com/watch?v=8dTN4PBD2rg But honestly Google software seems so buggy. The management class took over there a long ago and are quietly ruining the company.
- rvnx 11mo agoProbably got inspired by Apple and their iOS 26 quality control
- izzydata 11mo agoMeanwhile I don't feel like the era of AI assisted software development has even started.
- einpoklum 11mo agoLooking at that page makes me think I should go the other direction and switch from a graphical IDE to vim or something. You know, ground myself by adopting more gravity.
- dominicrose 11mo agoI agree that the name is horrible. It has Anti, gravity and Google in it. Vim and all other non-graphical tools are great because they work in WSL, they work in linux servers and they may even work in Docker containers, although sometimes you have to do something like: apk add vim
- DmitryBalabka 11mo agoThe name strange indeed. However, Gravity is able to connect to WSL in the same way as VSCode: Ctrl+P -> ">Remote-WSL: Connect to WSL"
- cube2222 11mo agoI'll be honest - this doesn't look half-bad. It really seems like it's just standardizing into a first-class UI what a lot of people have already been doing. I don't think I'm the target for this - I already use Claude Code with jj workspaces and a mostly design-doc first workflow, and I don't see why I would switch to this, but I think this could be quite useful for people who don't want to dive in so deep and combine raw tooling themselves.
- jadbox 11mo agoIt's a good start, but I found it lacking compared to VSCode+CLINE+Gemini Pro.
- meowface 11mo agoAs a daily Claude Code and Codex user, I've really got to start getting into jj. I keep telling myself I will but I'm just so used to git. Can you elaborate on how you personally use jj workspaces with command-line coding agents?
- cube2222 11mo agoSure. Honestly I think you can get the same with git work trees, though I haven't tried. After a couple iterations on this, I've ended up having claude code vibe-code a helper CLI in Go for me which I can invoke with `ontheside <new-workspace-name> <base-change>` and will - create a new jj workspace based on the given change - create a docker container configured with everything my unit tests need to run, my claude code config mounted, and jj configured - it also sets up a claude code hook to run `jj` (no arguments) every time it changes a file, so that jj does a snapshot - finishes by starting an interactive claude code session with `--dangerously-skip-permissions` - it also cleans it all up once I exit the claude code session and fish shell that's running it With this I can have Claude Code working asynchronously on something, while I can review (or peek) the changes in batch from my main editor by running `jj show <change-id>` / `jj diff -r "..."` (which in my case opens it up in the Goland multi-file diff viewer). I can also easily switch to the change it's working on in my main editor, to make some manual modifications if necessary. This is, in general, primarily for "in the background async stuff" I want to have it work on. Most of the time I just have a dead-normal claude code session running in my main workspace. Minor self-plug - if you want, I posted a jj intro article a while ago[0], though it doesn't include my current workspace usage. [0]: https://kubamartin.com/posts/introduction-to-the-jujutsu-vcs/ https://kubamartin.com/posts/introduction-to-the-jujutsu-vcs...
- taco_emoji 11mo agoI clicked around for ~30 seconds and I have no idea what this is. Great job, Google marketing
- BigParm 11mo agoEven if this is good, I'll never know because I'm not investing time into something that will be canceled in one year.
- beanjuiceII 11mo agoprobably discontinue it in a few months
- skeeter2020 11mo agoyou would need to be bonkers to trust Google at the intersection of 1. vibe coding, 2. supporting developers, and 3. a product that's not selling ads
- htrp 11mo agoGoogle AI products are the new chat product
- qwertox 11mo agoI can't get the agent to use my MCP server. The MCP config is provided, and the application can query the tools, but the agent can't access my server, only the http operations the application performs to list the tools is something i see in my server logs. It knows there are tools, because it sees the list, it tells me when it's trying to connect to which tool. But that fails.
- dmitrygr 11mo ago“agentic” is the new “ai”, which was the new “web3”, which was the new “5G”, which was the new “4G”, which was the new “HDR”, which was the new “HD”…
- brovonov 11mo agoAny reason why this isn't just an extension instead of another fork?
- recursive 11mo agoLanding page instantly spun up the fan on my laptop. The animation was about 3fps.
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- smcleod 11mo agoAnother VSCode fork! This is getting ridiculous.
- _hao 11mo agoOh look, another piece of shit AI slop I won't use. Next!
- t1234s 11mo agoIs it safe to use these types of AI enhanced editors with files that contain sensitive information?
- clever-leap 11mo agoSo deceptive name. It has nothing to do with gravity.
- 0xblinq 11mo agoAs if this was something one could trust it won't be shut down 3 years from now... No thanks...
- uatec 11mo ago"Congratulations, you have been elevated to manager to agents." That's not exactly really where I hoped my career would lead. It's like managing junior developers, but without having nice people to work with.
- MangoToupe 11mo agoAlso, agents have no capacity to learn.
- jstummbillig 11mo agoHold that thought.
- bradfa 11mo agoThey have a capacity to "learn", it's just WAY MORE INVOLVED than how humans learn. With a human, you give them feedback or advice and generally by the 2nd or 3rd time the same kind of thing happens they can figure it out and improve. With an LLM, you have to specifically setup a convoluted (and potentially financially and electrical power expensive) system in order to provide MANY MORE examples of how to improve via fine tuning or other training actions.
- OtherShrezzing 11mo agoI think it’s reasonable to say that different approaches to learning is some kind of spectrum, but that contemporary fine tuning isn’t on that spectrum at all.
- ethmarks 11mo agoDepending on your definition of "learn", you can also use something akin to ChatGPT's Memory feature. When you teach it something, just have it take notes on how to do that thing and include its notes in the system prompt for next time. Much cheaper than fine-tuning. But still obviously far less efficient and effective than human learning.
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- codepoet80 11mo agoOn my m2 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM, it took over 12 minutes to startup and get to a usable state. When it did, it was plainly just a jacked version of VSCode. Opening a project caused it to hang again. Dumped it. VSCodium, with the terminal pane open so I can talk to Claude works fine for me...
- robinduckett 11mo agoJust sits on "Setting Up Your Account" pane and does nothing :)
- earlyriser 11mo agoSame issue here. Are you on Mac?
- epaga 11mo agoI am and am having the same issue. Edit: And just as I posted this comment, on my second launch, it went through after about a minute of waiting.
- mygoodgomez 11mo agoPossibly a problem with "organization" accounts? I'm seeing the never-ending spinner too.
- gre 11mo agoMy personal mac worked, my work mac is spinning. It has jamf among other stuff
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- BakeInBeens 11mo agoI'm having the same issue. I thought it was just me or something with their cloud network. I also haven't been able to download Android Studio from the website for a month. I couldn't even download it from my Macbook so probably not the same issue.
- cal85 11mo agoHad same issue until I disconnected from Tailscale, in case that helps anyone.
- theflyinghorse 11mo agoI couldn't get it to work on M1 mac. it spins forever on login screen.
- floppyd 11mo agoIt's probably just under a huge load right now. Set it up pretty easily earlier on an M1 Air, but agent chats fail quickly with "model under load"
- hereme888 11mo agoAre they explicitly excluding OpenAI in their IDE? (gpt-oss running on Google cloud doesn't count)
- bflesch 11mo agoI just feel second-hand embarrassment when seeing these kind of posts.
- kune 11mo agoThis thing crashes on Ubuntu LTS 24.04 during start. Apparently all these agents are not able to ensure that a desktop app starts on a popular Linux distribution. If Google has forgotten how to do Software, than the future doesn't look bright.
- fogzen 11mo agoWake me up when there's an IDE that cares about performance. My coworkers are amazed my laptop can run for days because I don't use Electron crap.
- lbrito 11mo agoThe agentic spam is exhausting. I just wanted to code. Too early in my career to not give a shit and retire, but too late be excited about these things and eager to learn. What a time...
- kevstev 11mo agoI feel this. Tbh I was excited about most of the previous tech fads I have come across. Sure, people got overzealous with them and also failed to realize that what F*NG needs is not what your three person startup needs, but there were always some good and interesting ideas there. This just feels... a little too dystopian. Companies hoovered up the entirety more or less of all of our collective thoughts and writings and output and now want to sell it back to us- and I fear that cost is going to be extremely steep. It's impressive, but at the same time, just feels like its going to somehow be a net detractor to society, and yet I feel I need to keep up with each new iteration or potentially get washed over and left behind by the wave. I am somewhat fortunate to be towards the top of the pyramid and also in a position where I could theoretically ride off into the sunset, but I fear the societal implications and the pain that is going to come for vast numbers of people.
- absoluteunit1 11mo agoSame here - completely relate. One thing I’ve noticed though that actually coding (without the use of AI; maybe a bit of tab auto-complete) is that I’m actually way faster when working in my domain than I am when using AI tools. Everytime I use AI tools in my domain-expertise area, I find it ends up slowing me down. Introducing subtle bugs, me having to provide insane amount of context and details (at which point it becomes way faster to do it myself) Just code and chill man - having spent the last 6 months really trying everything (all these context engineering strategies, agents, CLAUDE.md files on every directory, et, etc). It really easy still more productive to just code yourself if you know what you’re doing. The thing I love most though - is having discussions with an LLM about an implementation, having it write some quick unit tests and performance tests for certain base cases, having it write a quick shell script, etc. things like this, it’s Amazing and makes me really enjoy programming since I save time and can focus on doing the actual fun stuff
- Towaway69 11mo agoWhat I don't get is why they didn't fork emacs, then build a VScode mode and then add AI to that. I guess it must have been the GPL which isn’t compatible with their AI agents. Oh, wait I was meant to take this announcement seriously?
- siliconc0w 11mo agoTrip report: I'm using it now to revamp a dashboard I'm working on. TBH it's not feeling much better than Codex - it couldn't figure out how to launch chrome with my default profile nor how to regenerate the css with tailwind. I'm also getting a lot of model quota errors like everyone else.
- 999900000999 11mo agoOh lucky, another free AI beta. I'm going to treat this like Kiro, and just use it until they start charging for it and then probably switch back to VS code with its built-in agent support. Eventually they're going to do a rug pull, and instead of paying $10 a month for tons of AI code request, it's going to be two or $300 for that. The economics just aren't there to actually make a profit, hopefully before the rug pool happens local models on normal hardware will be fast enough.
- purpleflame1257 11mo agoCan't wait for my IDE to get sunset on me with no recourse. Thanks google, but I'll pass.
- bitpush 11mo ago> with no recourse Why does the IDE eat your files? If an editor shuts down, open up another one and continue. What's with the melodrama?
- dudu24 11mo agoI cannot stand webpages that hijack scrolling like that.
- shoelessone 11mo agoI really don't know why I struggle so much with this stuff. I believe these models / agents / whatever write code that is often at least as good as the code I write, and they are super helpful tools, but it just feels like it takes away so much of the joy that is programming to me. I'm not saying it's "right" of me to feel this way, but for me the struggle, and the figuring things out by testing, identifying patterns, or looking deeper into a library's implementation (etc) is part of the challenge that makes programming and software construction fun.
- throwawaysleep 11mo agoIt is kind of joyless that my day is now wait 20 min, QA, report back.
- markstos 11mo agoAbsolutely.
- incognito124 11mo agoI'm in your boat. I picked this career because I enjoy solving problems and thinking and understanding. I'm interested in how things work inside below the layers. To me, it's like the tech has a purpose of its own, and not just to provide value. Using agents effectively is this whole other skillset including managing requirements, prioritization and, worse yet, I'm rarely left with any knowledge. I don't nearly get the same joy out of "I finished a task with an agent" like I do with "I had a problem, I delved deep to understand it, learned something new and solved it" Then again, I bet people making furniture out of wood felt the same about industrial furniture factories. And it can be argued that not every use case needs custom tailored furniture...
- satvikpendem 11mo agoYou can still do that, don't use LLMs.
- throwaway13337 11mo agoI gave it a fair shot. It is a vs code fork. There were some UI glitches. Some usability was better. Cursor has some real annoying usability issues - like their previous/next code change never going away and no way to disable it. Design of this one looks more polished and less muddy. I was working on a project and just continued with it. It was easy because they import setting from cursor. Feels like the browser wars. Anyway, I figured it was the only way to use gemini 3 so I got started. A fast model that doesn't look for much context. Could be a preprompt issue. But you have to prod it do stuff - no ambition and a kinda offputting atitude like 2.5. But hey - a smarter, less context rich Cursor composer model. And that's a complement because the latest composer is a hidden gem. Gemini has potential. So I start using it for my project and after about 20 mins - oh, no. Out of credits. What can I do? Is there a buy a plan button? No? Just use a different model? What's the strategy here? If I am into your IDE and your LLM, how do I actually use it? I can't pay for it and it has 20 minutes of use. I switched back to cursor. And you know? it had gemini 3 pro. Likely a less hobbled version. Day one. Seems like a mistake in the eyes of the big evil companies but I'll take it. Real developers want to pay real money for real useful things. Google needs to not set themselves up for failure with every product release. If you release a product, let those who actually want to use it have a path to do so.
- charliebwrites 11mo ago> It is a vs code fork Google may have won the browser wars with Chrome, but Microsoft seems to be winning the IDE wars with VSCode
- AstroBen 11mo agoIn user numbers, maybe. JetBrains is far ahead in actual developer experience though
- catlover76 11mo agoAt best, that's subjective, but it's fact that JetBrains is comically far behind when it comes to AI tooling. They have a chance to compete fresh with Fleet, but they are not making progress on even the basic IDE there, let alone getting anywhere near Cursor when it comes to LLM integration.
- yakattak 11mo agoThis could have been a plugin.
- noduerme 11mo ago>>Google Antigravity's Editor view offers tab autocompletion, natural language code commands, and a configurable, and context-aware configurable agent. Okay, but is it configurable? Also, can you configure it to write DRY code?
- phreeza 11mo agoCan someone inside comment if this is this a cider fork or a new branch off vscode?
- adidoit 11mo agoIt's insane to me that I can't pay $20/$200 bucks after running out of limits in ~5 messages. Why would you not at least link it to the pro and ultra accounts at least you could upsell the pro subs to ultra. Millions of claude code and codex users who are into agentic coding is your servicable market paying attention today. Now I'll delete antigravity and go back to codex / claude code / cursor ...
- c4kar 11mo agoI know it is not place to seek help but anyone else stuck while trying changing google accounts ?
- blitz_skull 11mo ago"You know what I want? More Google inside my tools." —No one, ever.
- __mharrison__ 11mo agoNot sure what this gives me over Copilot in VSCode that has access to OpenAI, Claude, Grok, Gemini, and Raptor(?) models. I assume that Copilot will have this model soon...
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- tonghohin 11mo agoWell, I can't even use it at all, it's just stuck on the 'Setting Up Your Account' step forever. That's a pretty sad product launch lol.
- makeavish 11mo agoTried Antigravity for 2 queries and my model quota limit breached. Model definitely felt better than GPT 5.1 (my current daily driver). I am continuing to use Gemini 3 Pro on Cursor to evaluate further.
- matt3210 11mo agoNice ide, can I disable the AI?
- anticensor 11mo agoIt's impossible to use it, stuck in the loading screen forever
- dwa3592 11mo agowhy isn't antigravity finishing the setup on my mac? it's been more than half an hour.
- Voultapher 11mo agoQuoting their own video: > You can verify your code quality at a glance, then ship with absolute confidence. Proclaiming absolute confidence after a glance leaves me with scant confident in the merit of the confidence.
- markstos 11mo agoI threw up a little in my mouth at "you can verify your code quality at a glance".
- wartywhoa23 11mo agoShould read > You can skip verifying your code quality, then ship with absolute chutzpah.
- drooopy 11mo agoI wonder how long they're gonna keep this around before they pull the plug.
- dtj1123 11mo agoA tiny part of me was disappointed to find something other than a product involving actual antigravity.
- 0dayman 11mo agoso it can be dumped 1 year later?
- xnx 11mo agoGemini, create an RSS feed for https://antigravity.google/blog https://antigravity.google/blog
- gowld 11mo agoWhy is this not a VS Code Extension?
- orliesaurus 11mo agoEven the launch trailer sucks. The people at Windsurf who worked on this must be laughing at us driving on their Lambos and Ferraris. They glued slop together, shipped this and now are in Tahoe drinking Martinis watching the sunset from their private chalets.
- TiredOfLife 11mo agoThe people that made Windsurf are in this trailer. Those who got bought by Cognition were either fired or forced to work 100h weeks
- orliesaurus 11mo agoyes, hence why I said the people at Windsurf that worked on this...because they are the ones that have been shipping this slop after the buyout.
- stack_framer 11mo agoThat floating chess board was a subliminal message: Your project will teeter, and critical pieces will fall off. You will occasionally make an illegal move as the board annoyingly shifts beneath you.
- fcsp 11mo agoDid any of these VS Code forks yet fix their issues from official marketplace access leading to extensions being severely outdated and ripe with security issues?
- w2seraph 11mo agoVibe coding has taken a way to where its become psychological, and these days all I work with is just a "fast apt" solution like Cursor's Composer 1, I tried Gemini 3 inside Cursor, and while I had no real application to a real stratified properly to benchmark it with, it felt "already slow" in a very fast race.
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- Razengan 11mo agoNotice how "Privacy" is not a talking point anywhere on that page. ⌘F only shows 1 result. and 0 in the comments here!!
- seanw444 11mo agoI've seen "agent" and "agentic" so many times in the last few months that the usage of the term is quickly becoming one of my biggest pet peeves. The previous one was "enshittification", and I'm glad that one was a short-lived fad.
- ummonk 11mo agoI'm stuck on "setting up this account" like most people. What a botched launch. This kind of bugginess and unreliability has become so much more frequent since big tech started tightening the screws with mass layoffs.
- nafizh 11mo agoThere's no way I am using such an important piece of life as an IDE from Google just because I know they are going to kill it within 3 years, if it survives that much. Probably will die with the Windsurf guy jumping ship again.
- NoSalt 11mo agoNo ... no, thank you. Keep your AI away from me and my stuff.
- mangogogo 11mo agogreat, now everybody can vibe code even harder.
- aespinoza 11mo agoI downloaded it, but I was not even able to get past `Account Set Up`. :(
- jdthedisciple 11mo agoSo a VS Code fork. At this time, when VS Code is better than ever and ever improving. I think imma pass.
- Topfi 11mo agoTested it for roughly two hours now, far from ready for prime time, very buggy and clearly just quickly build on Windsurfs already rather issue laden code base. Essentially a less well thought out imitation of Trae's Solo mode, added in a second window on top of VSCode and not very well integrated, struggling with terminal commands and despite showing issues in the browser window and screenshot taken by the model, proclaiming the task to be completed. Tool calls also aren't as reliable as I would have expected considering their ownership of the code base, hard to tell whether that is underlying in the model (it was a major issue with 2.5 Pro) or simply Antigravity specific, hoping the latter. Additionally, there are issues setting up accounts (Singapore VPN solved that for me), no support for Workspace users, only a free tier that requires data sharing, no additional rate limits for paying Pro or Ultra customers, etc. Even worse, Gemini CLI currently does NOT provide Gemini 3 Pro for Ultra Business customers despite paying over € 260,- per month, which is frankly ridiculous. Will be honest, I was speculating that the reason for the multi month delay between the first A/B tests of Gemini 3 class models and the final release was so they'd have all their dugs in a row. Have some time to test everything, improve tooling, provide new paid subscriptions and/or ensure existing ones get access to everything day one, but they didn't. Gemini 3 Pro seems very interesting (to early to say), but compared to every other recent launch by OpenAI (5, 5.1, Codex variants), Anthropic (Sonnet and Haiku 4.5), even Kimi (K2 Thinking) and Z.AI (GLM-4.6), this is by far the least organized launch of any frontier lab. A buggy IDE which is unusable for paying customers, no CLI access for Ultra business (and none at all for Pro of any kind), etc. is frankly embarrassing when considering what competitors manage to provide the day a model launches. What have they been working on these last two months besides going on X and posting "3" every couple of days? Why is there no paid Antigravity tier, no way to use Workspace accounts, etc? Before launching in this state, I feel it'd have been better to delay a bit more if it was absolutely needed. Also, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the fourth or fifth IDE built by Google for LLM assisted coding? What happened to IDX and Firebase Studio and aren't they also based on VSCode?
- vincelt 11mo agoIt's 2025 and a code editor is now 600MB.
- mulquin 11mo agoNot interested in trying something that will be killed shortly.
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- egamirorrim 11mo agoI get so annoyed when Google launches things like this without Vertex support. Instant no-way from compliance and I'm left sitting on the sidelines.
- tiku 11mo agoI'm not switching from Claude code. It did the job but didn't do it as good as Claude Code with the details and context.
- flipgimble 11mo agoGoogle subscriptions and services are so terribly mismanaged that I will be staying away, no matter how incredible this shallow fork of vscode may be. I remember a previous story months ago about Gemini that had Google PMs trying to hype their product, but it was all question about how nobody knows how to get Gemini API keys with any number of paid subscription. On top of that how long until it’s https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/ ?
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- verdverm 11mo agoMan does this thing spam new windows... why spawn new window instead of panels in a single instance? I have to close 4+ after just a few minutes of poking around
- briandw 11mo agoI tried it. Maybe I got unlucky, but Gemini performed poorly in my testing. I gave it a task that I was working on with VSCode and GPT codex 5.1. Gemini3 repeatedly failed to finish the task and started to go down a rabbit hole on an unrelated task. The browser extension is really cool and it provides a needed tool for the agent to use. It used the extension to show the page that it updated in the task document (the task doc is great too). However it showed me a page and did it was done, when it was clearly not done and not what I asked for. I was expecting weaker tooling and a better model. I got good tooling and a not very good model. Maybe 3.1 will deliver?
- tin7in 11mo agoI tried it and ran out of credits during the first prompt. No visible way to upgrade or purchase.
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- sbinnee 11mo agoOh no. What's with the scrolling in the blog page. What a terrible experience. It's clearly vibe-coded and AI-tested. If a senior saw mingling with the scrolling behavior, it would have been never in production.
- gigatexal 11mo agoLame. Still like things like Zed that look a bit like vscode but without all the electron trash. It’s just google’s attempt at cursor. Nothing to see here.
- CafeRacer 11mo agowell, I'm not even willing to try it because of whatever retarded thing they did with the page scroll
- NamlchakKhandro 11mo agoyawn. opencode with it's superior feature set and ability to use any model provider i want is.... superior why would you even bother with google at this point?
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- chris_pie 11mo agoThat's a big name for a slop fork. So many possibilities (with LLMs and without) but Google just can't bring themselves to do anything creative, let alone transformative.
- alpharunner 11mo agoLong live the cursor. RIP.
- wayeq 11mo agoweird name. abbreviating it to GAG isn't much better.
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- WanderPanda 11mo agoSmall feedback if any of the Antigravity people read here: "Fast" is not a great name for the "eager" option (vs. "Planning") because "Fast" is associated with "dumb" in LLMs (fast/flash/mini). Probably "Eager" would be a more descriptive name
- dangayle 11mo agoJust throw it onto the pile, I guess
- nomilk 11mo ago> we added pieces that evolved the IDE towards an agent first future such as ... an additional novel agent-first form factor "Novel agent-first form factor" feels very buzz-wordy. Does it refer to an actual feature?
- 1zael 11mo agoIt's a hard sell for Cursor users using Gemini 3 to switchover to AntiGravity. There's nothing innovative they have introduced for me to switch IDEs.
- PunchTornado 11mo agothe thing is, I tried it and it took 10 seconds to import all settings from cursor. the moat for vscode clones is really small. i imagine people will jump a lot from clone to clone, like from model to model now.
- UncleOxidant 11mo agoI keep getting: "Antigravity server crashed unexpectedly. Please restart to fully restore AI features." On Ubuntu 24.04 - others on reddit reporting the same with 24.04.
- ptdorf 11mo agoAnd for the first time since I have this MacBook Pro (M2 2023) I heard and felt the fans. I was wondering if they were imaginary.
- kittensmittens5 11mo agoThe odds of me using a Google IDE are the same as me logging into my Google+ account to connect with friends.
- moneywoes 11mo agowhat's the value prop over cursor
- rao-v 11mo agoI was genuinely impressed by the Antigravity browser plugin for "agentic" work. I ran into a neat website and asked it to generate a similiar UX with Astro and it did a decent-ish job of seeing how the site handled scrolling visually and in code and replicating it in a tidy repo.
- CSMastermind 11mo agoIn my first test of it, it's pretty bad. Guess I'm sticking to codex.
- AbuAssar 11mo agoso this is what Google was doing with their 2.5B Windsurf acquisition...
- solfox 11mo agoI spent a few days with Firebase Studio when it was announced. I stopped using it because it was clearly a very early alpha - tons of bugs, and didn't seem well thought out. Now, less than a few months later (!!!), they announce a competing IDE with essentially the same functionality, but a different brand? Is the right hand talking to the left?
- lord999x 11mo agoI've been burned enough by Google Graveyard experiences that this is a hard pass.
- lord999x 11mo agoI've been burned by Google Graveyard enough that this is a hard pass from me.
- purpleidea 11mo agoNobody is interested in proprietary editors. People only accepted vscode because most of it was open source. AIUI this is a fork of that, but seriously, push out the changes or pass.
- snehesht 11mo agoAfter the first five minutes of using it on Ubuntu, it crashed with error saying I don't have enough free memory, quick look into system stats proved that wasn't the case. Anyway, not a great first impression. I guess I'll try again in a few months.
- charliewallace 11mo agoI downloaded Antigravity this morning and was able get this Mobius Clock debugged in a few minutes - then for the heck of it added a whole list of features! I'm blown away by how fast you can work. Yes, there were a series of problems, as expected whenever you attempt hard stuff, but at the end of the day, do check out the improved mobius clock!!! https://www.mobiusclock.com https://www.mobiusclock.com
- alganet 11mo agoOn Windows, it behaves like a malware. Suddenly flashing command prompt windows when you interact with it. Not very nice (also, lazy, since you don't need to do that flashing if you're a legitimate app).
- skatanski 11mo agoI don’t really understand, if replacing developers is right around the corner, why throw money into so many IDEs. Or perhaps it’s really cheap to produce something like this?
- eeixlk 11mo agoMaybe they should have used an ai to code an ide without all these glitches
- pjmlp 11mo agoApparently there are only three kinds of developers according to Google, and enterprise developers code mainly Next.js.
- fedeb95 11mo ago0$/month. Wow, someone is really pushing for widespread adoption.
- zk108 11mo agoUntil they stop supporting it and rug builders using it in typical Google fashion
- tcsenpai 11mo agoI was very hyped: maybe Google finally did something new, complete, unifying CLI and IDE, a sort of Claude Code Web but as an efficient, IDE-like, local thing. Then I installed it and it was a VSCode fork.
- xyst 11mo agoyet another Google project heading to the graveyard in 4-5 years. If this AI bubble even lasts that long.
- SilverSlash 11mo agoI was never really a fan of Cursor. I'll use this if it's free and eventually gets generous free quotas.
- booleandilemma 11mo agoWhat's an "enterprise developer"? Is that what normal people call a "backend developer"?
- emiliobumachar 11mo agoSemantically, it sounds like anyone who develops for a big company, normally an employee or contractor.
- dominicrose 11mo agoThis looks like an experimental IDE, which is fine. The whole AI bubble is an experiment. It will burst and that's OK as well.
- timvdalen 11mo agoAnother VS code fork?
- tauntz 11mo ago<snark> Pressing the "Submit" button on their "Google Antigravity for Organizations Interest Form" (https://antigravity.google/interest-form https://antigravity.google/interest-form) doesn't actually do anything for me (tried Firefox and Chrome) -> their metrics will indicate that there's no interest from organizations -> the product will be killed in a year. </snark>
- tpoacher 11mo agoSlightly off-topic, but I really hate this trend that now every developer / researcher / engineer also needs to be an actor (typically cringy one) pretending to be quirky for the camera while trying to act unnaturally excited about the technology. I really miss the days of the professional casualness and naturalness of something like the "mother of all demos" [0]. Like, can you imagine the guy wearing a turtleneck and going, "but wait!" and acting surprised after every sentence? It would NOT have been the same demo. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
- fragmede 11mo ago> I really miss the days of the professional casualness Yes, the professional actor that doesn't seem like a paid actor is preferable to the autistic weirdo. That's why they get paid the big bucks and we get relegated to the basement.
- wartywhoa23 11mo agoSomeone decided that the audience of standup comedy overlaps with tech meetup one 100%. Jokes aside though, it's much broader than that, it's just that the zeitgeist dictates that everyone shifts from work to meta-work: musicians must impress not with their music but the way they make music, researchers must entertain, developers must manage agents, children watch someone else play games instead of playing themselves. That's yet another increment to the already dizzying level of simulation per Jean Baudrillard.
- egorfine 11mo agoIt is my understanding that no experienced programmer would even consider touching that stuff given Google's stellar track record in developers' satisfaction. I believe it is aimed at investors. Thus it will be forgotten the minute it stops influencing stock price. Thus there is no need to take it literally as a developer tool - it's not.
- moosedev 11mo ago> I believe it is aimed at investors. I think it’s more likely aimed at the (internal) promotion committee.
- stingraycharles 11mo agoThat’s what it feels like yes. It has a lot of overlap with a ton of stuff that Google already does, and it seems like it’s one of those “rather than improving an existing product, let’s create a new one because that gets us a promotion” situations which Google is well known for.
- dsmurrell 11mo agoYes... also, why would I use this when it will get shut down soon?
- brazukadev 11mo agoThis is very true. 10 years ago I'd be one of the first to try. Now? Thanks, I'm good
- antiloper 11mo ago> Cross-surface Agents Nice that it's built-in, Claude Code needs an MCP for this at least. > User Feedback: Intuitively integrate feedback across surfaces and artifacts to guide and refine the agent’s work. I wish they'd just let me edit the implementation plan directly instead of me having to explain the corrections. Claude Code has the same weakness. Explaining the corrections is slower than editing the plan manually, and it still keeps the incorrect text in context as well. > An Agent-First Experience: Manage multiple agents at the same time Sounds nice in theory but I assume you can run multiple agents for 5 minutes or so and then you're out of credits. As a claude code user I'm not really sold on this product.
- asgerhb 11mo agoI have lamented the fact that download buttons can be hard to find on software home pages sometimes. But having just a download button and a "more" button on your landing page seems to be taking things a bit too far.
- modeitsch 11mo agothe funny things is that you can use all the models but you cant switch the browser
- jpfromlondon 11mo agocool, more chromium/electron slop.
- martini333 11mo agoI cannot see any difference than VS Code with a theme...
- binsquare 11mo agoIs this what they recruited the windsurf team for a billion for?
- bjord 11mo agoheads up: it installs a persistent background process that silently squats on the default kafka client port (9092) at startup
- mike_heffner 11mo agothere went 10 mins of debugging why kafka wouldn't start
- berkeymis 10mo agothere went 6 hours of debugging why my applications are getting out of memory errors when trying to connect to my inside-docker-running kafka. they were getting an actual answer from antigravity but because of the first 4 bytes of the message, the clients were thinking a huuuuge message is coming and tried to allocate byte array memory for that. such an unthoughtful decision to actually use one of the most common used ports for a developer when developing an actual IDE for DEVELOPERS.
- benrutter 11mo agoDoes anyone here have a take on why so many people are forking VSCode instead of writing a plugin? Is AI codegen the kind of thing that would be impoasible with a plugin or something?
- urbandw311er 11mo agoYes, it’s to avoid getting bitten by any arbitrary (and potentially self-serving) limits Microsoft chooses to put on the plugin interface.
- 0x00cl 11mo agoMy best guess would be that plugins are limited into what they can do within VSCode, and rewriting a whole IDE/Text editor just for AI Agent seems a lot of work. For example a while back vscode-pets[1] plugin became popular and tried it and noticed that the pet can only live within a window, whether its the explorer section or in its own panel, I thought it'd be more of a desktop pet that could be anywhere within VSCode but apparently there are limitations (https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets/issues/4 https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets/issues/4). So my guess is that forking VSCode and customizing it that way is much easier to do things that you can't with a plugin while also not having to maintain an IDE/Text editor. [1] https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets
- urbandw311er 11mo agoTangential I know but what a clumsy sounding name
- lunias 11mo agoI really dislike the name. Apparently: The name "Google Antigravity" was chosen to convey the idea of making the software development process more weightless. That's good because my arms were getting tired pushing code around in emacs everyday.
- romulofff 11mo agoHad some issues setting up with my Google account, never went past the setup page. Some friends faced the same problem, but managed to advance by skipping installing extensions. Trying that now to see if it works!
- TZubiri 11mo agoThe problem with this whole product category is that vcs cannot track what was actually the source input and what was generated. If I write "float exp(float base, float exp){" Then that is the source code and the rest is generated. Mixing it all up is as dumb as uploading a compiled binary or bytecode to git. Especially annoying when you are working with other people and you can't tell what they actually wrote and know about.
- badenglish 11mo agoOnce upon a time, all you needed to program was a compiler. Now, it's moving toward paying to write code. This will certainly kill open source
- neysofu 11mo agoAll of this is entirely optional. You're free to code the "old-fashiond" way, if you so prefer.
- eranation 11mo agoPetty nitpick, but this sentence doesn’t sound right > “Google Antigravity's Editor view offers tab autocompletion, natural language code commands, and a configurable, and context-aware configurable agent.” Is it a typo or was there a reason to add configurable twice?
- chrz 11mo agoThey might have made the whole thing with AI to prove you can make things with AI
- haritha-j 11mo agothe agent keeps giving me errors. no thanks.
- sega_sai 11mo agoI wanted to like it as a Gemini Pro subscriber who does not want to also pay for Claude Code, but after running Antigravity for ~ 10 minutes, and a few back and forward exchanges I got the 'Model quota limit exceeded' message with no indication when it will reset. You get the impression that these products from Google (including Gemini CLI ) are just made as prototypes -- they are supposed to work as a demo, but Google does not actually care about having a working workflow with them. Claude Code on the other hand is an actual product that works well.
- alkonaut 11mo agoMy heart really sinks every time someone launches a "new IDE" and it turns out to be VS Code. VSCode can be turned into an IDE for _some_ platforms. But not for others. It remains a text editor with some nice extras (syntax highlighting, navigation) but lacking others (debugger, testing, ...). What's most astonishing is that I can't seem to find what actual platforms it works for. I don't doubt the LLM's can write code in almost any language and for almost all frameworks, with varying success. But which languages/platforms/framework will the IDE work for technically, having compilers etc built in? I don't care if an LLM can help me with the code, if I then can't compile it within the same IDE! They have a "full stack" use case here, which doesn't even suggest what this stack consists of? https://antigravity.google/use-cases/fullstack https://antigravity.google/use-cases/fullstack Am I going crazy or are they just handwaving the _actual_ development tasks in all this?
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- fourseventy 11mo agoHow long until they discontinue it?
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- alexfromapex 11mo agoDo any white people still work at Google or has DEI gone so far that being white means you can't be in their marketing videos anymore?
- AbstractH24 11mo agoIt's fascinating to me how far they de-emphasize product screenshots on the website, even in the video on it. And the pricing page is all but blank. Really reflects how companies are prioritizing hype and adoption over product quality. (now off to download it...)
- eugene-kim 11mo agoLots of commenters are simply calling this a VSCode fork and I think they're missing something important as far as how this product fits into the market. Anthropic and OpenAI are investing a lot into this space and are now competing directly with companies like Cursor. Cursor's biggest moat at the moment is their tab completion model, which doesn't exist in the Anthropic's and OpenAI's current offerings and is leagues ahead of Github Copilot's. Antigravity is a VSCode fork that adds both Google's own tab complete and an agent composer, similar to products like https://conductor.build/ https://conductor.build/. Assuming that Google doesn't shoot themselves in the foot (which they seem to like doing), we'll see if wrappers like Cursor / Windsurf / Cognition can compete against the big labs. It's worth noting that the category seems to be blurring, since Cursor has trained not only their own tab complete model but also their own agent model.
- vimto 11mo agoYeah I've used it today quite heavily and I genuinely feel it's given me the best AI workflow yet, and I say this coming from Jetbrains + Claude Code. Personally I felt having immediate access to the VSCode extension ecosystem to be a huge boon and I quickly got a setup to my liking.
- archon810 11mo agoHave you tried Cursor though? To me, that is the system to beat.
- vimto 11mo agoI haven't no. I could be wrong but I always saw Cursor as more of a low-code tool whereas Claude Code + IDE as the more professional combo.
- archon810 11mo agoAI integration into all aspects of the IDE is the killer feature of Cursor for me. Also access for $20 a month to every important model out there, and once you go over your credits, they grant you about another $25 in free credits and then you can work pretty much unlimited in Auto mode where it automatically picks the model for you.
- carabiner 11mo agoDoes anyone notice that this story has had almost the same number of points and comments for 24 hours?
- vimto 11mo agoI've been using it today and honestly I'm impressed. I seem to be the exception when I say I don't care it's a vscode fork. Having access to the extension ecosystem seems like a boon to me and I could quickly get a setup to my liking to rival my current Jetbrains Claude Code setup. It seems to streamline my existing Claude Code workflow with a much better UI. The tab complete seems the best I've experienced and the text/image selection, adding comments and iterating on a plan is genius. Depressing to see everyone here unable to see the forest for the trees.
- bluelightning2k 11mo agoI agree! It's great. Until you hit the limit, then there's literally no path to continue. I would happily pay 20 or whatever for 4x limits. I'm very curious what they end up offering. My major reservation is side project vibes. I think it's hard to believe on this long term unless Google themselves adopt it.
- vimto 11mo agoI think hitting limits is a common complaint I see across all the AI tools. I used it with Gemini Pro and didn't hit such limits.
- Huppie 11mo agoHow is it compared to Cursur though?
- vimto 11mo agoI haven't used Cursor sorry.
- bluelightning2k 11mo agoI've spent time with this today and I really like it. The problem is the rate limiting is both aggressive and has no option to pay to bypass. Also call it "antigrav". Less of a mouthful
- sauercrowd 11mo agoComments here complaining about the fact that it's vscode seem to miss the point here. That's a huge advantage, it's means all the obvious stuff will just work. LSPs, debuggers, version control, customisation. As much as I like Emacs, it's an insane pain to make all these things work. If your value prop is agents on a codebase, there's no point in trying to reinvent those. They have basically been solved.
- johnnyWx0021 11mo agovs code is great!
- KarterF 11mo agoStill hopeful but the biggest issue for a python user: Pylance If you manage to even get the Pylance extension to show up (I had to change the "marketplace" settings) it will say: > This extension is not compatible with Antigravity What the heck am I supposed to do with the Jedi fall back? Legitimate question: Can Jedi even highlight unused imports? Can it import symbols not found? If Pylance doesn't work, fork it. But the LSP needs to just work out of the box.
- oscarfb 10mo agoHey Karter did you find any solution to that? I'm facing the exact same problem... were you able to use Pylance or any other similar? Thanks
- jasperhyp 10mo agoPylance is MS-proprietary and so no one can use it (incl Cursor/Windsurf). I think you can use BasedPyright? Not sure if other Pyright variant work (e.g., * for Cursor/Windsurf etc.) but this one works for me.
- KarterF 10mo agoYeah just kind of frustrating how the Python plugin (which has a dependency on Pylance) just fails to install Pylance in Antigravity. I even got some error messages related to it. In windsurf installing the Python plugin it will install Windsurf Pyright: https://marketplace.windsurf.com/extension/Codeium/windsurfPyright https://marketplace.windsurf.com/extension/Codeium/windsurfP... It looks like that is a fork of basedpyright. I have just been using basedpyright now. Better than Jedi / Windsurf Pyright (at least in the import area which was frustrating me). Idk what cursor does, my free credits ran out a while ago :P
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- iamzycon 11mo agoTo stay relevant in the AI race, DeepMind presumably thought to come up with a pop-up AI product.
- mega-tux 11mo agoI wanted to try it. How to install it on Opensuse (Tumbleweed)? I was unable to install the rpm for Fedora.
- dpflan 11mo agoIs this being used internally at Google? What's the "dog-fooding" situation and is it leading to productivity enhancements?
- thomasvn 11mo agoI'm enjoying the concept. Tight browser integration/control. Controlling agents by commenting on Artifacts (Task List, Implementation Plan). But the user experience for basic things has just been difficult. Unresponsive Agent Manager window. Agents hitting file permission errors because I don't have a proper "workspace". Agents getting blocked waiting for me to confirm a command line's "y/n".
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- techxeni 10mo agoThanks for the detailed article. I used a devtool in order to speedup the development with google antigravity. This tool not only provides prompts it provides workflows MCP and lot more to make developer life easier while using Antigravity. Check this out - https: https://antigravityai.directory/ https://antigravityai.directory/