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Re: Google Antigravity

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alyxya wrote: post #403
nateb2022 wrote: post #43

I went ahead and downloaded it, it looks to be a VSCode fork very similar to Cursor, with support for the following models: - Gemini 3 Pro (High) - Gemini 3 Pro (Low) - Claude Sonnet 4.5 - Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking) - GPT-OSS 120B (Medium)

Making a VSCode fork is probably the wrong direction at this point in time. The future of agentic coding should need less support for code editor related functionality, and could eventually primarily support viewing code rather than editing code. There's a lot more flexibility in UI starting from scratch, and personally I want to see a UI that allows flexible manipulation of context and code changes with multiple age…

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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by Too »

uatec wrote: post #378

"Congratulations, you have been elevated to manager to agents." That's not exactly really where I hoped my career would lead. It's like managing junior developers, but without having nice people to work with.

I thought you were joking until I saw the video where this is an actual quote.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by DuperPower »

modeless wrote: post #78
nateb2022 wrote: post #43

I went ahead and downloaded it, it looks to be a VSCode fork very similar to Cursor, with support for the following models: - Gemini 3 Pro (High) - Gemini 3 Pro (Low) - Claude Sonnet 4.5 - Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking) - GPT-OSS 120B (Medium)

Thank you for saying what this entire blog post doesn't. It's actually disrespectful of Google to launch this without even a mention of the fact that it is based on VSCode.

AI companies blogs are not for devs, they write for tech journalists to hype

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by fl0ki »

ghc wrote: post #240
ryandvm wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has Google *ever* successfully entered and taken over an existing market?

You mean like web search, webmail, internet ads, maps, calendars, browsers, smartphone operating systems, online document editing, and translation? I mean, I'm not even including stuff they acquired early like YouTube. Google was the most feared company for a decade or more for a good reason: they absolutely devoured competition in what were thought to be mature markets.

Putting aside that several of these were acquisitions, these are all great examples of things where Google introduced something for free because it would make the money through advertising, both directly and through ecosystem effects. Even the paid enterprise versions of these services were a tiny % of Google's overall gross revenue.

Prior to the push into Cloud computing, Ad revenue was well over 90% of all Google gross income, and Cloud was the first big way they diversified. GCP is definitely a credible competitor these days, but it did not devour AWS. Other commercial Google services didn't even become credible competitors, e.g. Google Stadia was a technically exceptional platform that got nowhere with customers.

The question now is whether Google carves out an edge in AI that makes it profitable overall, directly or strategically. Like many companies, there seems to be a presumption of potentially infinite upside, which is what it would take to justify the astronomical costs.

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Post by bradfa »

MangoToupe wrote: post #381
uatec wrote: post #378

"Congratulations, you have been elevated to manager to agents." That's not exactly really where I hoped my career would lead. It's like managing junior developers, but without having nice people to work with.

Also, agents have no capacity to learn.

They have a capacity to "learn", it's just WAY MORE INVOLVED than how humans learn.

With a human, you give them feedback or advice and generally by the 2nd or 3rd time the same kind of thing happens they can figure it out and improve. With an LLM, you have to specifically setup a convoluted (and potentially financially and electrical power expensive) system in order to provide MANY MORE examples of how to improve via fine tuning or other training actions.

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Post by lbrito »

The agentic spam is exhausting. I just wanted to code.

Too early in my career to not give a shit and retire, but too late be excited about these things and eager to learn. What a time...

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by badgersnake »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #406
badgersnake wrote: post #401

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like they managed to make it Mac only in the process.

I would love this to be true to further make fun of Electron, but I don't think it's Mac only. https://antigravity.google/download

Ahh you’re right. The UX of that site is bad on my phone.

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Post by FuriouslyAdrift »

mentalgear wrote: post #130
craftkiller wrote: post #27

I don't get it. It's a completely blank web page. Did they not test in firefox? Ah Google misconfigured their web server: > Loading module from “ https://antigravity.google/main-74LQFSAF.js ” was blocked because of a disallowed MIME type (“text/html”). Edit: And a couple minutes later, it is now working. Guess Google is reading HN.

Honestly, the full page doesn't give you much more. Not a SINGLE product image. All paragraphs about "agentic" blah-blah you have read 100s of times by now - I do not see how this is anything different from all the other AI VS Code forks, besides that it comes with Gemini from the start.

They're blitzing all media with a Gemini 3 push, it seems.
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