By unifying the billing and quota systems, as well as providing better integration, I presume The Antigravity harness is by far better than the gemini-cli one. Antigravity also offers models other than Gemini as well. When you say Antigravity, you think of a platform whereas when you say Gemini you think of the model It's great that gemini-cli is open-source, but that also comes with a bunch of ai-generated issues an…
When you say Antigravity, I think of floating around on a space ship.
Maybe that's what the experience of using it is like ?
What if their telemetry shows very low usage? I've seen virtually no discussion of Gemini CLI online.
There's a fair amount of enterprise usage. It's a really good product, despite the Claude hype. Anthropic is a PITA to deal with, and it's slow as shit weekday morning Eastern time.
Gemini CLI for Enterprise will continue.
> If your organization uses Gemini CLI or our IDE extensions via a Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise license, or if your organization uses Gemini Code Assist for GitHub through Google Cloud, your access remains unchanged.
There are 13,700 forks of its repo on Github. If anything, I suspect closing the source for their coding agent may have been part of the goal.
If the repo is already forked, what difference does it make if Google supports it or not? The community can just continue development if they so choose
It's the code they develop going forward that matters.
How does anyone internally at Google justify these decisions? Even if there are competing implementations, in terms of brand recognition, I feel like “Gemini” is more closely associated with Google than “Antigravity”. Why pick the more obscure option?! Perhaps they felt the sentiment on Gemini CLI was beyond repair, but surely there must be some voice on the inside saying “developers will never adopt our products if…
How does anyone internally at Google justify these decisions? Even if there are competing implementations, in terms of brand recognition, I feel like “Gemini” is more closely associated with Google than “Antigravity”. Why pick the more obscure option?! Perhaps they felt the sentiment on Gemini CLI was beyond repair, but surely there must be some voice on the inside saying “developers will never adopt our products if…
I disagree; gemini is their ai model brand, antigravity is their code harness. Its much better branding than calling every single product "Co-Pilot (tm)".
Yes it'd be like if Claude Code was actually called Opus
By unifying the billing and quota systems, as well as providing better integration, I presume The Antigravity harness is by far better than the gemini-cli one. Antigravity also offers models other than Gemini as well. When you say Antigravity, you think of a platform whereas when you say Gemini you think of the model It's great that gemini-cli is open-source, but that also comes with a bunch of ai-generated issues an…
When you say Antigravity, I think of floating around on a space ship.
I think that's a lack of gravity. According to wikipedia antigravity is in fact impossible (under known laws of physics).
As luck would have it, I tried Antigravity for the first time a few days ago. It was a complete buggy mess - at one point I asked Gemini why it could not use the network despite having network access enabled in the sandbox settings, and it told me that although it had network access, it couldn't use mdnsresponder while running with the built-in sandbox. Like, how well thought out, network access without DNS. After bu…
My experience with any built in sandboxing for these command line tools has been awful. What I've done instead is built a script to create a disposable virtual machine (using incus to manage it). And then I just run the CLI inside the virtual machine and delete the vm at the end of each day.
I'm curious why seemingly none of those projects tried using browsers JS/wasm execution as a sandbox instead
Your take is cynical, but sensible in a massive org with dysfunctional culture that jades and burns out engineers until they only care about their own personal gains and everything else is secondary. I think people project their values in situations that don't have place for them and get upset
> I think people project their values in situations that don't have place for them and get upset That is a very useful bit of wisdom that one can overlook easily, but once articulated can explain a fair bot behaviour.
How does anyone internally at Google justify these decisions? Even if there are competing implementations, in terms of brand recognition, I feel like “Gemini” is more closely associated with Google than “Antigravity”. Why pick the more obscure option?! Perhaps they felt the sentiment on Gemini CLI was beyond repair, but surely there must be some voice on the inside saying “developers will never adopt our products if…
By unifying the billing and quota systems, as well as providing better integration, I presume The Antigravity harness is by far better than the gemini-cli one. Antigravity also offers models other than Gemini as well. When you say Antigravity, you think of a platform whereas when you say Gemini you think of the model It's great that gemini-cli is open-source, but that also comes with a bunch of ai-generated issues an…
I don't ever say "Antigravity", because it's not worth getting invested into tool, that will be dead in two years, when "Google Harness" or whatever they will call it, will replace it