Google Antigravity • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by sippeangelo » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 4:59 PM UTC

> 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.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by ethmarks » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:00 PM UTC

nateb2022 wrote: post #43

I 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)

Interesting that they include non-Gemini models. Both Claude and GPT oss are both on Google Cloud, so I assume that Antigravity is using GC as the provider and not making API calls to Anthropic or OpenAI.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by salawat » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:00 PM UTC

spuz wrote: post #19

> 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".

You weren't the target audience. The target audience was manager types tired of being told no by engineers. Always listen to the quiet parts left unspoken/unacknoeledged.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by irilesscent » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:01 PM UTC

Seems 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.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by zem » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:02 PM UTC

bad_haircut72 wrote: post #97

vosper wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Horse racing didn’t go away and there are more people who race horses professionally than who race cars.

There are many more truck drivers than buggy drivers

there is a lot more buggy code than truck code

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by juancn » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:02 PM UTC

How 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!

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by coffeebeqn » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:02 PM UTC

oytis wrote: post #37

Haven't we got enough of new eras yet?

Each 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

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by dboon » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:03 PM UTC

It’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?

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by mrzool » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:03 PM UTC

I wonder how many meetings where necessary to come up with that name

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by mentalgear » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:03 PM UTC

craftkiller wrote: post #27

I 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 ” 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.

Honestly, 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.