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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by mohsen1 » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:07 PM UTC

This 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

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by zb3 » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:07 PM UTC

Nice 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.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by hughw » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:08 PM UTC

xinghai wrote: post #118

Anyone got stuck on the "Setting Up Your Account" page ?

yep

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by NaomiLehman » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:08 PM UTC

kulahan wrote: post #91

gcr wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why? EDIT: why must users care?

Gotta learn all the quirks of the model before it's replaced in 8 minutes.

Quirks? like context window?

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by crazygringo » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:08 PM UTC

aeternum wrote: post #94

Product 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.

Why? 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.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by fooqux » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:08 PM UTC

pooyamo wrote: post #136

kUdtiHaEX wrote: post #107

2020: 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

>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.

Well 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.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:09 PM UTC

Blog post: https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravi...

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by 0xf00ff00f » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:10 PM UTC

bluerooibos wrote: post #79

Read the title, got excited. Read the page.. ah well, guess we'll have to wait another while for FTL travel.

Same, I thought they had discovered cavorite with their quantum computer or something.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by everyone » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:10 PM UTC

My 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.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:11 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)

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