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Re: Google Antigravity

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

We have a real, serious problem when even Google (presumably with a large share of the world's engineering might) is just forking VSCode.

Re: Google Antigravity

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

koakuma-chan wrote: post #140

dboon wrote: post #128

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…

They should've made an ACP server https://agentclientprotocol.com

Yeah. I really like opencode, which provides an ACP.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by tayo42 » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:18 PM UTC

echelon wrote: post #155

modeless wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for saying what this entire blog post doesn't. It's actually disrespectful of Google to launch this without even a mention of the fact that it is based on VSCode.

Google is going to win AI and kill all the other market participants. They have the revenues to support all of this. They spent time learning from all the players and can now fast follow into every market. Now they're fast and nimble and are willing to clone other products wholesale, fork VSCode, etc. They're developing all of this, meanwhile Pichai is calling it a "bubble" to put a chill on funding (read: competitio…

>They spent time learning from all the players and can now fast follow into every market.

Google has never successfully done that? Maybe once?

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by croes » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:19 PM UTC

SPICLK2 wrote: post #87

gcr wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why? EDIT: why must users care?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

The accepted answer is one that doesn’t care about the questioner‘s use case and instead gives a pretty excessive "Don‘t do it"

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by jeltz » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:19 PM UTC

marstall wrote: post #120

I 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?

They do and it is often entertaining.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by barbazoo » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:19 PM UTC

rglover wrote: post #171

We have a real, serious problem when even Google (presumably with a large share of the world's engineering might) is just forking VSCode.

With every AI VSCode fork we get closer to the bubble popping.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by hughw » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:20 PM UTC

hughw wrote: post #143

xinghai wrote: post #118

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

yep

I switched to my personal gmail identity and it succeeded.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by gnarlouse » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:20 PM UTC

Oarch wrote: post #22

gnarlouse wrote: post #15

So the whole world is a scam for your data now basically.

Neigh, a Trojan Horse.

Something something, "my kingdom for a horse." Obligatory upvote, wp

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by conartist6 » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:21 PM UTC

mccoyb wrote: post #46

> 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.

Challenge accepted

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by croes » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:21 PM UTC

elif wrote: post #28

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".

Few horse racers became automobile racers. If existing engineers don't change it doesn't matter because new engineers will take their place.

We‘ll wait and see.

Car manufacturers made profit