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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by pooyamo »

botanrice wrote: post #156
pooyamo wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

Zed team is writing their own in-house GUI stack [1] that leverages the computer's GPU with minimal middleware in-between. It's a lot of work short-term but IMO the payoff would be huge if they establish themselves. I imagine they could poke into the user-facing OS sector if their human-agent interaction is smooth. (I have not tried it yet though)

[1]: https://www.gpui.rs

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by thekevan »

mentalgear wrote: post #130
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.

"Not a SINGLE product image."

But there is a 13 minute demo video.

https://antigravity.google/product

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by poemxo »

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…

For the wage suppression thing, Google pays their engineers better than say Amazon or Microsoft.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by renegade-otter »

crazygringo wrote: post #152
jihadjihad wrote: post #51

> Spin up agents to tackle routine tasks that take you out of your flow, such as codebase research, bug fixes, and backlog tasks. The software of the future, where nobody on staff knows how anything is built, no one understands why anything breaks, and cruft multiplies exponentially. But at least we're not taken out of our flow!

You can ask agents to identify and remove cruft. You can ask an agent why something is breaking -- to hypothesize potential causes and test them for validity. If you don't understand how something is built, you can ask the agent to give you an overview of the architecture and then dive into whatever part you want to explore more. And it's not like any of your criticisms don't apply to human teams. They also let cruft…

Because what we need is not lazy people - we need lazy people with AI? How is this even a justification?

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by roywiggins »

botanrice wrote: post #156
pooyamo wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

it's fast

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by keepamovin »

fosterfriends wrote: post #192

Anyone else getting this error: "Agent execution terminated due to model provider overload. Please try again later."

Yes I just tried GP3H and got this. GP3L is fine tho.

I like this tool.

edit: Scratch that, GP3L is erroring out too. Global hug I guess. I still like this.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by crazygringo »

renegade-otter wrote: post #195
crazygringo wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can ask agents to identify and remove cruft. You can ask an agent why something is breaking -- to hypothesize potential causes and test them for validity. If you don't understand how something is built, you can ask the agent to give you an overview of the architecture and then dive into whatever part you want to explore more. And it's not like any of your criticisms don't apply to human teams. They also let cruft…

Because what we need is not lazy people - we need lazy people with AI? How is this even a justification?

Sorry, where did "lazy people" come from? Nobody's talking about anybody being lazy.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by ryandvm »

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…

Has Google *ever* successfully entered and taken over an existing market?
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