It's a shame not even mention the amazing work of VSCode.
The VSCode homepage does not mention Chromium or Electron.
Google Antigravity
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#292MacOS/Safari User here. Stuck on 'Setting Up Your Account' once I've authorized it in the browser. /shrug
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968731 Why can I not authenticate into Google Antigravity? Google Antigravity is currently available for non-Workspace personal Google accounts in approved geographies. Please try using an @gmail.com email address if having challenges with Workspace Google accounts (even if used for personal purposes). https://antigravity.google/docs/faq
Thanks. Actually did use my personal account and got the issue nonetheless.
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#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have absolutely 0 idea why any developer would rely on any IDE produced by google. It'll be canned within 5 years max, with 3-4 seeming like a reasonable estimate of the lifespan of the product I've been using my current IDE for 17 years, and plan to continue using it for at least another 15
Do you really think antigravity will last longer than 1 year?
Yes
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#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Google Vertex is their equivalent of Amazon Bedrock
Well, that clears that up.
Re: Google Antigravity
#295The name sounds like it is not going to stick around for long.
A product name with five syllables is doomed.
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have Cursor at work. The only element of the interface I'm using (and know how to use) is the chat window. IMO, it's an absolutely crappy IDE, crappy editor, with absolutely incomprehensible hostile UI. I have almost two decades of experience with Vim, Emacs and IntelliJ. FWIW, I was able to easily find my ways in helix, kakoune and Zed.
Really? Can you say what you hate it about it pls
Not the person you asked, but I hate how it screws up keyboard shortcuts.
It overrode the delete line shortcut with its own inline chat one, for example.
Decided to ditch it for claude code right after that, since I cannot be bothered to go over the entire list of keyboard shortcuts and see what else it overrode/broke.
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#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then who are they targeting? Who else would currently be "implementing every single step"?
Project managers and higher level management.
Reminds me of the pre-GitHub days, when I had to use CM tools designed to appeal to project and CM managers, not to the poor developers who had to use them every day. Anybody else remember Harvest?
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#298> 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?
The increasing levels of abstraction work only as long as the abstractions are deterministic (with some limited exceptions - i.e. branch prediction/preloading at CPU level, etc). You can still get into issues with leaky abstractions, but generally they are quite rare in established high->low level language transformations.
This is more akin to manager-level view of the code (who need developers to go and look at the "deterministic" instructions); the abstraction is a lot lot more leaky than high->low level languages.
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#299Meanwhile I don't feel like the era of AI assisted software development has even started.
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#300Looking at that page makes me think I should go the other direction and switch from a graphical IDE to vim or something. You know, ground myself by adopting more gravity.