probably discontinue it in a few months
Google Antigravity
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#312Earlier 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.
The also launched a coding agent Jules: https://jules.google/
Jules is nifty. Weirdly heavy on the browser CPU.
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#313I'll be honest - this doesn't look half-bad. It really seems like it's just standardizing into a first-class UI what a lot of people have already been doing. I don't think I'm the target for this - I already use Claude Code with jj workspaces and a mostly design-doc first workflow, and I don't see why I would switch to this, but I think this could be quite useful for people who don't want to dive in so deep and combi…
It's a good start, but I found it lacking compared to VSCode+CLINE+Gemini Pro.
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#314you would need to be bonkers to trust Google at the intersection of 1. vibe coding, 2. supporting developers, and 3. a product that's not selling ads
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#315> 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…
> you can ask the agent to give you an overview of the architecture and then dive into whatever part you want to explore more.
This is actually a cool use that's being explored more and more. I first saw it in the wiki thing from the devin people, and now google released one as well.
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#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it so hard for these to be VSCode extensions and not forks?
Microsoft has very specific constraints on what extensions can and can't do, it's not a free for all. They're actively defending their mote by allowing Copilot to do things in a way that extensions couldn't. That's why all the serious contenders make a fork, it's simply not possible to have the same integration otherwise.
Still it would be a lot wiser if all the forkers would do one 'AI-enabled' fork together that exposes all the extras that copilot gets. The barrier for testing would be much lower and all the extension makers would also jump onto the train. Likely MS would finally give in and make all the extras available for everyone. But all the fragmentation only helps MS.
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#317On the pricing page it says that for public preview they are offering a free individual plan with "generous rate limits". I gave it an HTML file and asked it to create Jinja templates from it and 2 minutes later (still planning, no additional prompt) I got this: > Model quota limit exceeded. You have reached the quota limit for this model.
I think the models are under high load right now, and not working properly.
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#318""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.
yup, vibium!
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Google's definitively taken over search, ads, e-mail, maps, office (for small/medium business).
They're struggling on cloud, AI, ISP, videoconferencing, and others...
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#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
Few horse racers became automobile racers. If existing engineers don't change it doesn't matter because new engineers will take their place.
Horse racing didn’t go away and there are more people who race horses professionally than who race cars.
"Professional riders number roughly three to six thousand worldwide, while professional drivers number roughly twenty to forty thousand across major sanctioned series."