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Re: Antigravity 2.0

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Post by SwellJoe »

jjcm wrote: post #2

It's wild how much these agent interfaces have aligned UI-wise. There's almost zero difference between all of them.

I did a review of all of them recently (OK, there are way too many to review all...but, all the official and semi-official ones), and my favorites were Reasonix and MiMo Code, partly because they're the least like Claude Code, while everyone else is a mostly direct copy.

Reasonix is not great on all fronts, but it shows how much money you've spent at all times, it's fast, it's not a direct copy of Claude Code, and it is designed specifically to maximize DeepSeek caching, so it's free real estate...like a buck a day to use DeepSeek models hard.

MiMo Code is just cute as hell. It's got (mostly tasteful) animations and emojis and such, it's fun to use. It also is not a direct copy of Claude Code. It almost feels like a GUI app. MiMo Pro is an underappreciated model, too, at least for some classes of problem. It's very good at security vulnerability research, and very cheap. It's slower than DeepSeek and more easily confused by tools, but it's uncannily good at reading code and identifying security bugs (rough parity with Opus 4.8/GPT 5.5 at more than an order of magnitude lower price); and with fewer false positives than most models, including the frontiers. And, to keep it on topic, Antigravity refuses security work of any sort, so it's unfit for purpose. Gemini 3.6 Flash is pretty good at security work via the API, so it's not the model rejecting, it's the agent, which is extra annoying.

Re: Antigravity 2.0

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Post by SwellJoe »

pixel_popping wrote: post #16
SwellJoe wrote: post #7

I don't see a 2.0 of the CLI, thus far. When they killed Gemini CLI (a better product), they said it was to share effort across the GUI and TUI, but I guess that doesn't mean what a normal person would assume it means. The current CLI version 1.1.10 is still completely broken for any security work (even though Gemini CLI had a security plugin and the Gemini models are competent at the task and don't refuse it when ca…

Gemini CLI was utter shit and always had delayed model release on top of it. I'm not kidding when 1 hour automated vibe-coding led to an agent 30% cheaper and faster on 1:1 tasks with the SAME Gemini models (re-ran on 50 past tasks) , genuinely shameful that Google even released this, it was so buggy, trapped in infinite loops as well and so-on. Antigravity is a whole different product, the only way I use it currentl…

Gemini CLI didn't refuse to perform security audits of code. That makes it better than Antigravity, IMHO.

Security audits are the one thing everyone needs to be doing with AI, now, even if you're not doing any other work with AI. If you hate LLMs you still need to defend against them. And, the US providers seem to all be racing to make that capability inaccessible to anyone who isn't at a Fortune 500 and able to use their "cyber" versions.

Re: Antigravity 2.0

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Post by zb3 »

Antigravity 2.0 is a great solution to the problem called "I have too much money and I don't know where to spend it", agents are doing their job (maximizing token usage) perfectly.

Re: Antigravity 2.0

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Post by RussianCow »

seunosewa wrote: post #14
overgard wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's kind of bizarre in that it's not like this is an optimal interface, either. I mean, it's fine, but why not try something different? I also don't really get why TUI's have become such a big deal, other than maybe nerd bait. The only time I want a TUI is when I'm SSH'd into a machine, which isn't very often? TUI's have so many downsides. Selecting text is inconsistent, copy paste is inconsistent, mouse behaviors..…

The SSH into machine market is huge. Cloud work, Dedicated servers, VPS, Colab.

There's no reason you couldn't present a GUI over an SSH connection. Whether the agent is running locally or remotely is orthogonal to the type of interface used.

Re: Antigravity 2.0

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Post by jnpnj »

jjcm wrote: post #2

It's wild how much these agent interfaces have aligned UI-wise. There's almost zero difference between all of them.

When NLP is the interface the natural reflex is to cut the visual interface.

Re: Antigravity 2.0

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Post by esseph »

RussianCow wrote: post #26
seunosewa wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The SSH into machine market is huge. Cloud work, Dedicated servers, VPS, Colab.

There's no reason you couldn't present a GUI over an SSH connection. Whether the agent is running locally or remotely is orthogonal to the type of interface used.

Most of us sshing in would be very annoyed by the GUI and associated overhead and latency. "Why doesn't this exist?“ Because people don't want it at scale.

Re: Antigravity 2.0

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Post by vehemenz »

LaurensBER wrote: post #9

For a v2.0 this doesn't seem to bring anything new to the table or the page is not very good at communicating what makes this unique compared to Codex or Claude Work. Either way good for Google but I do not expect this to gain a lot of traction, it has been almost months now since I've heard someone talk positively about the Google models and other AI offerings. It's too little, too late.

Their marketing materials emphasize inter-agent communication, but that's hardly unique to Antigravity. Either way, it's not BYOK, so there's already a substantial reason not to use it if you're deploying multiple agents.

Re: Antigravity 2.0

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Post by mystifyingpoi »

overgard wrote: post #6
jjcm wrote: post #2

It's wild how much these agent interfaces have aligned UI-wise. There's almost zero difference between all of them.

It's kind of bizarre in that it's not like this is an optimal interface, either. I mean, it's fine, but why not try something different? I also don't really get why TUI's have become such a big deal, other than maybe nerd bait. The only time I want a TUI is when I'm SSH'd into a machine, which isn't very often? TUI's have so many downsides. Selecting text is inconsistent, copy paste is inconsistent, mouse behaviors..…

> The only time I want a TUI is when I'm SSH'd into a machine

Well, that's your need and it is fine. For me, I want TUIs all the time for everything. They blend really nice with... well, all the other TUI tools I already use all the time.

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