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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by threetonesun » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:14 PM UTC

IncreasePosts wrote: post #134

nasretdinov wrote: post #7

- A new "AI" IDE announced - It's VS Code Like clockwork!

Is the extension system in VSCode not powerful enough to make these just normal extensions for a vanilla VSCode executable? Or is everyone just going for lock in, since if you download MyFork, you can't start using some other extension that uses OtherGuysModel?

Correct. One could say the same thing for browsers. I suppose on the one hand it's good that it's relatively easy to spin up a new project like this, on the other hand one must swear allegiance to their large software company of choice.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by uejfiweun » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:14 PM UTC

Theory: the naming of this product is strategic. Google's goal is to push something else above "Google antitrust" in the autocomplete.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:15 PM UTC

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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by sangeeth96 » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:15 PM UTC

With 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.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by zkmon » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:16 PM UTC

The name sounds like it is not going to stick around for long.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by nthypes » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:16 PM UTC

This is a vibe-coded VSCode fork. In a simple task, I got overload/quota exceeded errors with horrible error handling. lol

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by ivanjermakov » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

dupe https://antigravity.google/

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by brazukadev » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #145

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.

They should not be too metaphorical when naming a clone, tho.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by bsimpson » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:18 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.

Making an IDE sounds like an insane amount of effort.

FWIW, the Fuchsia team was working on an editor that had a Flutter UI when run in Fuchsia:

https://xi-editor.io/frontends.html

Re: Google Antigravity

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

salawat wrote: post #123

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.

They will equally be tired of being told yes by LLMs.