Thanks for posting this! Quickly turned off auto-update on Antigravity IDE. Don't really use it for coding, but it turned into my shell-scripting+data cleanup editor to keep that separate from my actual projects.
Google's Antigravity bait and switch
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Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#222> The day was to begin like any other, with Antigravity open > This unexpected shift completely broke my preferred workflow it might not have been so unexpected if you knew you were one of ~15 people that start their day with Antigravity
I've become an Antigravity convert mainly because of the generous limits, especially on the Anthropic models. User since day 1.
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#223I'm very surprised, goggle are usually known for their customer focused approach and long standing support of legacy systems!
They really are at the forefront of legacy system support, sometimes starting it just months after a product launches.
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
Closed source IDEs are if anything the norm: Visual Studio, Android Studio, XCode, IntelliJ, CLion, PyCharm, etc... Even in the "fancy text editor" category things like Sublime were always popular enough.
isn't vscode open source?
Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are different beasts.
Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#225I 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.
It only stores credentials in the keyring, so if you have no dbus keyring service running it just silently won't remember them.
Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#226I'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?
Text classification is the one problem LLMs are best suited for.
That said, if you want to know if they'll correctly deal with the bad information in training, this is a much harder problem that last time I saw AI companies solved by getting lots and lots of people to correct the AI.
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Sometimes I wonder if they even realize they have users...
Jules is still alive. https://jules.google.com
Which somewhat ironically can import from github but not directly from aistudio..
It's a little crazy they still depend on microsoft as an intermediate between all their tools.
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#228I don't know why you're so mad. Google knows best in all things.
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#229Google made its lack of interest in Antigravity IDE obvious from very early. Updates were few and far between and app-breaking bugs stuck around, despite tons of reports. Google's lack of focus is astounding. They sprinkle random products here and there and seem to then tepidly pick the product surface that is doing least bad and then tepidly focus on that. Compare that to every other AI lab, large and small that kno…
Whisk is a good example. They put out a pretty slick image manipulation tool that had infinite potential, and decided to just dump it and work on Flow instead, which while similar in features has a much more cumbersome interface. They really dont learn what works well about something when shuttering it. Poor post mortem anaylsis. Whisk very much could have lived on as a parallel evolution of interface over their image gen stack. I know it was labs software, and should have been expected but man they love throwing away what works for what doesnt.
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None of these are the "norm". The IDEs OC mentioned all have a much larger install base.
[citation needed] IDEs made by JetBrains are huge . At this point, they're basically the standard option for several JVM languages.
You can't expect the average person on HN to admit to using a JVM-based language. That would mean they write boring business software rather than cool ad surveillance tech.