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Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

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Re: Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

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Post by Ecko123 »

dpweb wrote: post #32
reilly3000 wrote: post #22

I had the same poor initial experience that others reported, but has anyone been paying for it recently and using it as a serious tool? Their new models are a pretty good value and crazy fast; I wonder if the Gemini on Antigravity output is overall competitive or has some niche use case other than being a frontend for Agent Substrate and their other projects

Got off Gemini before they ended the cli, was not working for me, and went to Codex and opencode/deepseek flash v4 0731 which was working ok. But got the google ai pro free 1 yr student - been liking agy quite alot actually - pretty good weekly allotment. Like the default, Flash 3.7 high. Even bought extra credits I've been hammering it all day long. People talk all day about coding but where this thing amazes me is…

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Re: Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

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Post by sanarothe »

dyauspitr wrote: post #31
CSMastermind wrote: post #13

It's impressive how badly Google has screwed up their models and coding products. There was a brief period of time I was using Anti-gravity as my daily driver when they first introduced it and then they just completely screwed it up.

How? Can you explain how they screwed it up.

Also curious to see what issues people are having. I'm a not-software engineer but I use antigravity quite a bit for my own projects.

If you give it a task, it completes it. It might so a single agent chug, or delegate some parallel tasks..

The architecture is essentially what was agreed on during the planning and spec phases.

So I'm just not understanding like... The codebot produces everything I ask, I use Gemini all day every day and I don't hit limits.

I see that if I were trying to code 10 hours a day the limits might be a problem but... This is a personal plan.

So. When people say that Gemini sucks, or they're hitting limits, I'm not understanding what problems they're encountering...

Re: Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

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Post by dan_voronov »

I suffered with Antigravity 1 and 2 for a long time (I’m not some weirdo, I just run a blog where I do deep dives into AI tools for programming=). The desktop version was basically unusable, so I used the console one. A couple of weeks ago I finally dropped it and switched to Pi with antigr login. With plugins you can configure it however you want. I just installed one of a deep-search plugins too: you need to add API credits from a search engine, but it can run multiple search rounds with a specified depth.

Compared $20 ChatGPT and AGY plan: my weekly limit on sol/terra used to disappear in one intensive day (or two normal ones). Now they’ve added the 5-hour limit on top of that, which is even more annoying. With Google I barely notice the limits at all — the only one is Opus 4.6 (not sure why it has one), and I only use it for double-checking sometimes.

The biggest problem is that the Pro model hasn’t been updated, and Flash just doesn’t produce solutions of the same quality as Sol. But it is matter of time...

Re: Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

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Post by doix »

reilly3000 wrote: post #22

I had the same poor initial experience that others reported, but has anyone been paying for it recently and using it as a serious tool? Their new models are a pretty good value and crazy fast; I wonder if the Gemini on Antigravity output is overall competitive or has some niche use case other than being a frontend for Agent Substrate and their other projects

I use it for all my non-professional work and I find it works well enough for me.

Mostly for things that I know are possible and have a vague idea of how I would do it, but it would take me longer. Some examples in no particular order:

* Made my wife's travel blog/site

* Chrome extension for Crunchyroll to allow multisubs + local translation for unsupported languages (so my wife and I can watch and she doesn't need to focus extra hard reading English)

* Same as above for Netflix

* Setup multi subs with mpv (some Lua plugin shenanigans)

* Setup proton for warcraft 3 + wc3 champions (unofficial ladder) on Linux

* Setup a bunch of xrandr aliases for my different monitor uses (I'm still on x11)

If you need a custom chrome/firefox extension or to create some bespoke Linux QoL stuff, it works great. This was all Gemini Flash 3.5-3.7 (been using it for a while). I suspect pretty much anything would succeed at these tasks, but I just stick with antigravity because it works for me(and I'm on some discounted plan).

Re: Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

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Post by efskap »

CSMastermind wrote: post #13

It's impressive how badly Google has screwed up their models and coding products. There was a brief period of time I was using Anti-gravity as my daily driver when they first introduced it and then they just completely screwed it up.

And these are the guys who invented transformers! How?

Re: Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

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Post by alxhslm »

reilly3000 wrote: post #22

I had the same poor initial experience that others reported, but has anyone been paying for it recently and using it as a serious tool? Their new models are a pretty good value and crazy fast; I wonder if the Gemini on Antigravity output is overall competitive or has some niche use case other than being a frontend for Agent Substrate and their other projects

My experience recently is that antigravity CLI is much better than Gemini CLI now. Gemini would often get stuck in loops before. Fine for personal projects at least, especially for the price (got a year’s sub for $5 on G2A)

But I don’t think it’s as good as Claude Code or Codex yet.

Re: Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

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Post by azurezyq »

drusepth wrote: post #33
pcuaron wrote: post #9

Excellent, so Gemini 3.7 can trash your codebase even faster (but seriously: don't trust this model)

What should you be looking out for as bad behavior from this model? I've daily-driven 3.5, 3.6, and now 3.7 for however long it's been out (alongside Opus, as I hit daily limits on both subs each day) and haven't noticed anything "untrustworthy".

3.6 is not good.

3.7 is very reliable.

Re: Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

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Post by AlexErrant »

clumsysmurf wrote: post #19
CSMastermind wrote: post #13

It's impressive how badly Google has screwed up their models and coding products. There was a brief period of time I was using Anti-gravity as my daily driver when they first introduced it and then they just completely screwed it up.

Not just their coding products. Compare Claude Desktop / ChatGPT Classic to Gemini Desktop... Gemini desktop is barbaric with less usability / polish and more UI bugs than its online web counterpart. I wasn't able to give the new ChatGPT desktop app a try because it insists on phone number for the registration flow even though I'm using a free tier.

> even though I'm using a free tier

Erm, that's to be expected. GPUs ain't free. Anyone can make a free account and cost them potentially infinite compute, so a phone number is a way to lock that down. Might not be the "best" way, but hey: it's free.

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