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Re: Google I/O

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Post by postexitus » Wed, May 20, 2026, 9:43 AM UTC

evilduck wrote: post #88

postexitus wrote: post #59

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Erm - It is VSCode.

https://antigravity.google/ and https://antigravity.google/product Nowhere on their marketing copy do they own up to that. Even the majority of the UI screenshots intentionally exclude the full UI look and feel and most are plucked out to not even look contextually like they're part of a greater IDE interface. It very much feels like they want to call it their own and not a fork of VS Code. But wait, there's more ...…

I can't think of an AI-enabled IDE project that's not a fork of VSCode - There is only Zed, though I don't know if we can compare it to Antigravity or Cursor.

I am not sure if they have to explicitly say it's VSCode - do we expect car companies to say "Hey we actually rebadged this to X but it's originally Y" - those who need to know, already know.

Re: Google I/O

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Post by paulddraper » Wed, May 20, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

paulddraper wrote: post #181

sunaookami wrote: post #101

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It's constantly overloaded and shits the bed. Gemini is so awful, it feels like a GPT-3.5 era model that fails to make basic tool calls.

Maybe I'm on a different plan or something. > It's constantly overloaded and shits the bed Or happen avoid all the downtime. Claude has one 9 of uptime, downtime for me multiple times per week. [1] When it works, it's great. It just doesn't work that often recently. [1] https://status.claude.com/

UPDATE: Claude down again.

Re: Google I/O

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Post by spwa4 » Wed, May 20, 2026, 8:16 PM UTC

f311a wrote: post #47

londons_explore wrote: post #32

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3.5 flash is presumably cheaper to run than pro too... Perhaps the company is compute constrained like everyone else is?

Just a little bit, $9 vs $12 (3.1 Pro, the current PRO).

Here's an evil theory: perhaps they had to really increase the size of Gemini Flash ... because otherwise it would have been close to or maybe even outperformed by Qwen 3.6 27b or something like that.

Hence the cost.

Re: Google I/O

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Post by sunaookami » Thu, May 21, 2026, 11:55 AM UTC

surajrmal wrote: post #263

sunaookami wrote: post #241

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I'm on Google AI Pro

What are you expecting for $20/month?

A model that I can use? I'm on a trial plan but this doesn't convince me to pay for it for real. The 20$ plan for Codex and Claude just works and I get stuff done.