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The market demands INFINITE GROWTH
…and 0.1% of users click the button that annoys 99% of users, so it‘s a BIG SUCCESS.
there is no graph of user happiness. there is only graph of PROFIT
Google's Antigravity bait and switch
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#112Google hasn't handled this well, it is obvious. But I have to say that I never understood the Antigravity IDE. I much prefer using Gemini CLI in combination with vscode. It works like a charm. Now, I'll do the same with Antigravity CLI and vscode. It works fine.
Same. It’s really been a nothing bar for me with this cutover. I feel for the IDE people, but now I call agy vs gemini…life goes on. 3.1 Pro model still works perfectly for me and my needs, if anything I’m finding the agy cli much more responsive and stable so far
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#113Every time I update my JetBrains IDEs, they obliterate my lovely, tool packed UI and replace it with what looks like a minimalistic iPad app. I have to reenable a “Classic UI” plugin to fix it. This is annoying enough, but if they did something like the OP’s experience they’d lose a paying customer of 14 years overnight. IDEs aren’t social media apps- they’re tools. Familiarity is not just important, it is VITAL.
Designers gotta eat
Hey I have the same complaints about us developers adding new features that no one asked for to a product that already serves its purpose.
I wish the industry could learn the art of leaving shit alone.
Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#114I never really used the Antigravity IDE, but had it installed. The update also made me do a double take and wonder what the hell was going on. It seems like Google is hitting the reset button on the product they call "Antigravity", existing users be damned. Fine, if you've never installed or used the previous version before... but for existing users the "bait and switch" is incredibly disorientating. My take is they…
You can't use Antigravity 2.0 on Windows with WSL. There is simply no way to connect to WSL. The agent can't run any Linux commands.
Also the Antigravity CLI doesn't remember your credentials in WSL. It asks you to log in every time you run the program.
And after 4 chat sessions, my ~/antigravity-server folder now takes up 4 GB.
Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#115I never really used the Antigravity IDE, but had it installed. The update also made me do a double take and wonder what the hell was going on. It seems like Google is hitting the reset button on the product they call "Antigravity", existing users be damned. Fine, if you've never installed or used the previous version before... but for existing users the "bait and switch" is incredibly disorientating. My take is they…
Sometimes I wonder if they even realize they have users...
Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#116I am building an Agent IDE called Harness. It is somewhat inspired by the previous version of antigravity (and Conductor, and a few others). But with a core goal being open source & hackability. It's centered around git worktrees. The goal is to organize all your AI sessions into somewhat logical places and make it easy to context switch. The secondary goal is to remove the need to open a separate code editor anytime…
and what is the harness for harness called?
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#117I'm very surprised, goggle are usually known for their customer focused approach and long standing support of legacy systems!
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> How did Google blow their AI lead? What lead? Maybe because I'm mostly using AI/LLMs for development, but neither Google, Anthropic, xAI or anyone else has ever been in the lead, OpenAI always had the best models in my mind, as long as you're comparing the "top" plans between all of them. Besides, they all seem to shoot themselves in the foot, OpenAI included, seems the only thing that differs is how often and how…
Wow. Didn't realize OAI was astroturfing hacker news now...
There are plenty of shills for all of the major labs on this website. Usually checking a history of comments of a suspicious user reveals that quite fast.
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#119I want to Ask HN relating to this: What can be the motivation behind this change? Is this the preferred way of using AI coding tools nowadays? I've been using Antigravity mainly because of its tab completions. So I can work in code like in a traditional way and AI assists me. But it was a broken experience and now they are moving away from IDE based tool. The alternative is you write the prompt and it does everything…
I'm surprised anyone thought Google would stay committed to an IDE product built on Microsoft's VS Code. This was clearly an experiment or stepping stone, they were never going to stick to this path. It was always going to go away.
The most widely used IDE inside Google to work on Google products, Cider, is based on VS Code.
Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#120I'm very surprised, goggle are usually known for their customer focused approach and long standing support of legacy systems!
Can LLMs detect sarcasm? When AI scrapes this thread, does its sentiment analysis get tricked?
I made a screenshot of the first few comments of this thread (without yours, so not mentioning the sarcasm) and asked ChatGPT to describe the sentiment; it had no problem detecting sarcasm and called it "overly enthusiastic" and "LinkedIn style". So they have finally figured this out.