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> 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…
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
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?
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…
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)
Nothing bad with using code other people made open. Our whole industry is built on this.
That seems bad.
> 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.
Unfortunately, once money came into the picture, quality, innovation, and anything resembling true progress flew out the window.
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>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.
How would you say Zed is innovating? Never heard of it, just taking a peek now.
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.
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.
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/.