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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by user34283 »

rvz wrote: post #288
koakuma-chan wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh no, not another VSCode fork...

Many software engineering principles have been broken. Google using Electron tells us that quality control is completely out of the window. Unbelievable.

I tried writing a native Windows app using WinUI 3.

I wasted a day on trying to get some PNGs to render correctly, but no matter the config I used, the colors came out wrongly oversaturated.

I used Tauri with a WebView, and the app was rendering the images perfectly fine. On top of that the UI looked much better, and I was done in half the time I spend trying to fix the rendering issue in WinUI 3.

Never again will I go native.

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Post by soperj »

poemxo wrote: post #194
echelon wrote: post #155

Earlier 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…

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

He was talking about when Apple(under Steve Jobs) colluded with everyone (including Google), but doesn't seem to want to name Apple specifically.

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Post by LogicFailsMe »

therein wrote: post #307
noxa wrote: post #280

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+1 - it also doesn't support remote ssh (the open vsx variant), so is probably only focused at local web design development vibe coding ;( Should have just been an extension with a paid plan.

It also feels like they couldn't use the GOOGLE ANTIGRAVITY logo enough times in this blog post. Gigantic image with the logo and a subtitle, plastered over and over again.

I no longer bother reading their press releases. I'd much rather read the comments and threads like these to get the real story. And I say that as a former googler.

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Post by lo_zamoyski »

spuz wrote: post #19

> Your new focus is architecting the solution, not implementing every single step. So congratulations, you have been elevated to a manager of agents. I'm not sure many engineers will welcome this "promotion".

Perhaps it's worth posing the question: what sorts of "engineers" might feel threatened by agents? Those doing engineering, or those who spend their careers wading in the shallows? Competent designers with deep comprehension, or, at best, the superficial pedants?

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Post by qwertox »

I can't get the agent to use my MCP server. The MCP config is provided, and the application can query the tools, but the agent can't access my server, only the http operations the application performs to list the tools is something i see in my server logs. It knows there are tools, because it sees the list, it tells me when it's trying to connect to which tool. But that fails.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by haberdasher »

efields wrote: post #292
bgrainger wrote: post #216

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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.

Same

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by dmitrygr »

“agentic” is the new “ai”, which was the new “web3”, which was the new “5G”, which was the new “4G”, which was the new “HDR”, which was the new “HD”…

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by catigula »

Etheryte wrote: post #214
pdntspa wrote: post #201

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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.

Which is a bit odd given that Claude code extension in VSCode is by far the best agent integration into a codebase that I know of.
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