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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by absoluteunit1 »

lbrito wrote: post #416

The agentic spam is exhausting. I just wanted to code. Too early in my career to not give a shit and retire, but too late be excited about these things and eager to learn. What a time...

Same here - completely relate.

One thing I’ve noticed though that actually coding (without the use of AI; maybe a bit of tab auto-complete) is that I’m actually way faster when working in my domain than I am when using AI tools.

Everytime I use AI tools in my domain-expertise area, I find it ends up slowing me down. Introducing subtle bugs, me having to provide insane amount of context and details (at which point it becomes way faster to do it myself)

Just code and chill man - having spent the last 6 months really trying everything (all these context engineering strategies, agents, CLAUDE.md files on every directory, et, etc). It really easy still more productive to just code yourself if you know what you’re doing.

The thing I love most though - is having discussions with an LLM about an implementation, having it write some quick unit tests and performance tests for certain base cases, having it write a quick shell script, etc. things like this, it’s Amazing and makes me really enjoy programming since I save time and can focus on doing the actual fun stuff

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by kalaksi »

BeetleB wrote: post #454
uatec wrote: post #378

"Congratulations, you have been elevated to manager to agents." That's not exactly really where I hoped my career would lead. It's like managing junior developers, but without having nice people to work with.

> It's like managing junior developers, but without having nice people to work with. Nice? I thought all sycophant LLMs were exceedingly nice .

For me, it feels so fake that I'd rather have it not try to be nice. I guess I've gotten a bit used to it and ignore it for most parts.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by timeon »

AstroBen wrote: post #468
shermantanktop wrote: post #444

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- don't learn from what you tell them - don't have career growth that you can feel good about having contributed to - don't have a genuine interest in accomplishment or team goals - have no past and no future. When you change companies, they won't recognize you in the hall. - no ownership over results. If they make a mistake, they won't suffer.

Imagine having these complaints about a screwdriver It's a tool, not an intelligent being

I do not need to babysit my screwdriver.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by WD-42 »

_harsch wrote: post #479
vovavili wrote: post #465

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't bet on an Electron app winning anything long-term in the dev-oriented space.

its hold the market for over 10 years tho... i wished zed would've not been under gpl

Why not GPL? So we could be seeing closed source proprietary forks by now? How do you think the Zed team would feel about that?

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by dabockster »

alansammarone wrote: post #480
charliebwrites wrote: post #461

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It is a vs code fork Google may have won the browser wars with Chrome, but Microsoft seems to be winning the IDE wars with VSCode

I believe our definitions of "winning the IDE wars" are very, very different. For one thing, using "user count" as a metric for this like using "number of lines of code added" in a performance review. And even if that was part of the metric, people who use and don't absolutely fall in love with it, so much so that they become the ones advocating for its use, are only worth a tiny fraction of a "user". neovim won the…

> I don't know what IntelliJ is.

It started as a modernized Eclipse competitor (the Java IDE) but they've built a bunch of other IDEs based on it. Idk if it still runs on Java or not, but it had potential last I used it about a decade ago. But running GUI apps on the JVM isn't the best for 1000 reasons, so I hope they've moved off it.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by thanhhaimai »

charliebwrites wrote: post #461
throwaway13337 wrote: post #439

I gave it a fair shot. It is a vs code fork. There were some UI glitches. Some usability was better. Cursor has some real annoying usability issues - like their previous/next code change never going away and no way to disable it. Design of this one looks more polished and less muddy. I was working on a project and just continued with it. It was easy because they import setting from cursor. Feels like the browser wars…

> It is a vs code fork Google may have won the browser wars with Chrome, but Microsoft seems to be winning the IDE wars with VSCode

VSCode is based on Chromium. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/v...
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