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Re: Google Antigravity

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post #228

This whole blog post is seemingly about Google, not about the user. "Why We Built Antigravity" etc. "We want Antigravity to be the home base for software development in the era of agents" - cool, why would I as the user care about that?

After using Google AI studio, Google Vertex, and Google Gemini Chat I honestly can't wait to use Google Antigravity!

edit: Also Jules...

snark off:

I think the Google PMs should have coffee together and see if all of this sprawl makes any sense.

Re: Google Antigravity

#242
post #158

""Autonomously, an Antigravity Agent writes code for a new frontend feature, uses the terminal to launch localhost, and actuates the browser to test that the new feature works." very interesting times; i'm glad to see browser automation becoming more mainstream as part of the ai-assisted dev loop for testing. (disclosure: started the selenium project, now working on something similar for a vibe coding context)

is that "vibium" ? as someone who tried setting up selenium in a workflow im definitely interested.

Re: Google Antigravity

#243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Sublime did that almost 20 years ago.

Re: Google Antigravity

#245
post #113

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

This is why I have much respect for the Zed team as they are chasing originality, not just slap something onto VS Code and call it a new IDE.

I love Zed code. Sad that Sublime Text is not keeping up.

Re: Google Antigravity

#246

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

It's also an absolutely basic fork. They haven't even bothered with a custom theme, or custom UI, it's just vscode with an agents window slapped on top.

Weirdly, out of all the vscode forks the best UI is probably bytedance's TRAE

Re: Google Antigravity

#247
I probably wouldn't have been drawn to coding if I was young these days based on the same motivations that led me to venture into it as a teen.

Re: Google Antigravity

#248
post #241
post #228

This whole blog post is seemingly about Google, not about the user. "Why We Built Antigravity" etc. "We want Antigravity to be the home base for software development in the era of agents" - cool, why would I as the user care about that?

After using Google AI studio, Google Vertex, and Google Gemini Chat I honestly can't wait to use Google Antigravity! edit: Also Jules... snark off: I think the Google PMs should have coffee together and see if all of this sprawl makes any sense.

It does?

Google AI studio is their developer dashboard.

Google Vertex is their equivalent of Amazon Bedrock.

Google Gemini Chat is their ChatGPT app for normies.

Google Antigravity is their Cursor equivalent.

Re: Google Antigravity

#249

What the hell is going on with scrolling on their website?

yeah... almost completely broken on my iphone. something tells me they used antigravity to vibe the website. would explain other issues mentioned like vim keybindings being ignored.

..."Youre absolutely right! I did mess up the internals of that feature and incorrectly reported that it works. let me try again..."

Re: Google Antigravity

#250

> 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!

The software of the future, where nobody on staff knows how anything is built

Doesn't this apply to people who code in high level languages?

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