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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by meowface »

cube2222 wrote: post #301

I'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…

As a daily Claude Code and Codex user, I've really got to start getting into jj. I keep telling myself I will but I'm just so used to git.

Can you elaborate on how you personally use jj workspaces with command-line coding agents?

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Post by morshu9001 »

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.

Native app dev is covered in red tape and puts you at the mercy of Apple etc. It's unfortunate that things are so inefficient now, but competition is good, and native platforms can get good.

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Post by ewoodrich »

dust42 wrote: post #316
Etheryte wrote: post #214

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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.

What exactly are the "extras" that Copilot gets?

I've had a Github Copilot subscription from work for 1yr+ and switch between the official Copilot and Roo/Kilo Code from time to time. The official Copilot extension has improved a lot in the last 3-6 months but I can't recall ever seeing Copilot do something that Roo/Kilo can't do, or am I missing something obvious?

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Post by sirwhinesalot »

user34283 wrote: post #321
rvz wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

To be fair WinUI3 is particularly bad. If you're forced to install a 100MB runtime anyway, might as well make that runtime be a browser.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by ghuntley »

golergka wrote: post #185
nateb2022 wrote: post #43

I went ahead and downloaded it, it looks to be a VSCode fork very similar to Cursor, with support for the following models: - Gemini 3 Pro (High) - Gemini 3 Pro (Low) - Claude Sonnet 4.5 - Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking) - GPT-OSS 120B (Medium)

As somebody who worked on two IDEs which didn't fork VSCode but still used Monaco for code editing views, I think forking VSCode is almost always the right solutions for a new IDE. You get extensions, familiarity and most importantly, don't waste valuable time on the boring stuff which VSCode has already implemented. Nothing bad with using code other people made open. Our whole industry is built on this.

it isn’t http://ghuntley.com/fracture

forking vscode? simple. extensions not so simple. they are controlled by microsoft. without them you’ll run into continual papercuts as a vendor who has forked vscode.

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Post by rishabhd »

wiseowise wrote: post #230
ddp26 wrote: 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?

You wouldn’t. It’s made to suck out investor money and show that google does something, not to actually bring value. My crystal ball says it will be shutdown next year.

funny my magic 8 ball says the same thing!

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Post by whstl »

collingreen wrote: post #73
01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #47

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My YC2026 startups are an AI agent that automatically manages your VSCode forks, and a public safety computer vision app for smart glasses that predicts whether someone can afford a lawyer based on their skin color

They'll have to compete with these other pending funded companies: - ai therapist for your ai agents - genetic ai agent container orchestration; only the best results survive so they have to fight for their virtual lives - prompt engineering as a service - social media post generator so you can post "what if ai fundamentally changes everything about how people interact with software" think pieces even faster - vector…

Don't forget there's 2 or 3 of each in YC2026.

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Post by rvnx »

andy_ppp wrote: post #290

I enjoyed Theo’s take on this https://youtube.com/watch?v=8dTN4PBD2rg But honestly Google software seems so buggy. The management class took over there a long ago and are quietly ruining the company.

Probably got inspired by Apple and their iOS 26 quality control

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Post by tmikaeld »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #92
galaxyLogic wrote: post #61

If I use this does it mean Google has access to all my code and it may popup as"AI generated" in someone else's code?

Generally if you are paying full price (paying per token), then it's not used for training. If you are not paying, or paying a consumer level price ($20/mo) you will be trained on. ETA: In the terms they say they use your data because "free" is the only option available in preview. However it does say you can disable sharing in your settings...

There is a setting to disable telemetry, unclear what this means though.
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