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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by blauditore »

absoluteunit1 wrote: post #491
lbrito wrote: post #416

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...

Same here - completely relate. One thing I’ve noticed though that actually coding (without the use of AI; maybe a bit of tab auto-complete) is that I’m actually way faster when working in my domain than I am when using AI tools. Everytime I use AI tools in my domain-expertise area, I find it ends up slowing me down. Introducing subtle bugs, me having to provide insane amount of context and details (at which point it…

Devs are starting to realize that the sweet spot for AI support in coding is on a small scale, i.e. extended code completion. Generating huge chunks of code is often not reliable enough except for some niches (such as simple greenfield projects which profit from millions of examples online).

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by exasperaited »

pjc50 wrote: post #483
vovavili wrote: post #465

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I wouldn't bet on an Electron app winning anything long-term in the dev-oriented space.

What other UI framework looks as good on Windows, Mac and Linux?

This is the painful truth, isn't it?

IMO The next best cross-platform GUI framework is Qt (FreeCAD, QGIS, etc.)

Qt6 can look quite nice with QSS/QStyle themes, these days, and its native affordances are fairly good.

But it's not close. VSCode is nice-looking, to me.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by Voultapher »

Quoting their own video:

> You can verify your code quality at a glance, then ship with absolute confidence.

Proclaiming absolute confidence after a glance leaves me with scant confident in the merit of the confidence.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by crazygringo »

brazukadev wrote: post #168
crazygringo wrote: post #145

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Why? There's nothing wrong with metaphor. And agentic coding is about working at a much higher conceptual level. Further from the ground. Antigravity is a functional metaphor. My only issue with it is that it's too long at five syllables, and "anti-" is an inherently negative connotation. I'm guessing this will eventually get renamed if it gets popular, much like Bard was.

They should not be too metaphorical when naming a clone, tho.

Why not? And clone of what?

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by gmueckl »

chuckadams wrote: post #522
aniviacat wrote: post #398

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I wonder why these forks don't build off Eclipse Theia. Is it because of the Eclipse license?

Just the Eclipse legacy and development approach perhaps. Eclipse is 24 years old and its codebase stems from VisualAge before that, so I imagine it's ... idiosyncratic. Probably the most successful thing built on OSGi, though I dont imagine Theia brought any of that along.

At least for a while, Eclipse seemed like an Architect Astronaut's happy fever dream: actual bits if implementations hidden behind 5 to 10 nested interfaces and facades wherever I looked. I remember that at one point that I wanted to debug some weird behavior in the Plugin Development Kit and after sinking about half a day into exploring the source code, I didn't even see a single line of code that was actually doing anything meaningful. It was quite shocking to my old junior level self.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by lm28469 »

lbrito wrote: post #416

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...

It's never too early to retire, there are plenty of other things to work on outside of tech

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by kvirani »

Sammi wrote: post #520
shermantanktop wrote: post #444

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- don't learn from what you tell them - don't have career growth that you can feel good about having contributed to - don't have a genuine interest in accomplishment or team goals - have no past and no future. When you change companies, they won't recognize you in the hall. - no ownership over results. If they make a mistake, they won't suffer.

- don't learn from what you tell them Whenever I have a model fix something new I ask it to update the markdown implementation guides I have in the docs folder in my projects. I add these files to context as needed. I have one for implementing routes and one for implementing backend tests and so on. They then know how to do stuff in the future in my projects.

Can this additional prompt from you also be automated? I do this too but I forget sometimes. I don't know if a general rule will be enough ?
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