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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by CamperBob2 »

noduerme wrote: post #464
CamperBob2 wrote: post #451

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- don't learn from what you tell them We'll fix that, eventually. - don't have career growth that you can feel good about having contributed to Humans are on the verge of building machines that are smarter than we are. I feel pretty goddamned awesome about that. It's what we're supposed to be doing. - don't have a genuine interest in accomplishment or team goals Easy to train for, if it turns out to be necessary. I'd…

Replace suffering with caring and have your AI write that again.

Why would I do a goofy thing like that?

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by throwaway2037 »

discreteevent wrote: post #580
dabockster wrote: post #496

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> I don't know what IntelliJ is. It started as a modernized Eclipse competitor (the Java IDE) but they've built a bunch of other IDEs based on it. Idk if it still runs on Java or not, but it had potential last I used it about a decade ago. But running GUI apps on the JVM isn't the best for 1000 reasons, so I hope they've moved off it.

You don't actually use it but somehow you know that "running GUI apps on the JVM isn't the best for 1000 [unspecified] reasons". - This isn't a scientific approach.

I don't why this post is downvoted. My cynical reply to yours: "No, this isn't a scientific approach. It is the tin-foil hat HN approach!"

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by throwaway2037 »

cyberax wrote: post #573
charliebwrites wrote: post #461

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> It is a vs code fork Google may have won the browser wars with Chrome, but Microsoft seems to be winning the IDE wars with VSCode

15 years ago, every company had its own "BlahBlah Studio" IDE built on top of Eclipse. Now it's VSCode. Meanwhile, JetBrains IDEs are still the best, but remain unpopular outside of Android Studio.

    > remain unpopular outside of Android Studio
What a strange claim. For enterprise Java, is there is a serious alternative in 2025? And, Rider is slowly eating the lunch of (classic) Visual Studio for C# development. I used it again recently to write an Excel XLL plug-in. I could not believe how far Rider has come in 10 years.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by Dylan16807 »

Aurornis wrote: post #657
verdverm wrote: post #470

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why? I don't have a problem with it, building extensions for VS Code is pretty easy Alternatives have a lot of features to implement to reach parity

Complaining about Electron is an ideological battle, not a practical argument. The people who push these arguments don’t care that it actually runs very well on even below average developer laptops, they think it should have been written in something native.

The word "developer" is doing a lot of work there spec-wise.

The extent to which electron apps run well depends on how many you're running and how much ram you had to spare.

When I complain about electron it has nothing to do with ideology, it's because I do run out of memory, and then I look at my process lists and see these apps using 10x as much as native equivalents.

And the worst part of wasting memory is that it hasn't changed much in price for quite a while. Current model memory has regularly been available for less than $4/GB since 2012, and as of a couple months ago you could get it for $2.50/GB. So even a 50% boost in use wipes out the savings since then. And sure the newer RAM is a lot faster, but that doesn't help me run multiple programs at the same time.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by josvdwest »

qwertox wrote: post #327

I can't get the agent to use my MCP server. The MCP config is provided, and the application can query the tools, but the agent can't access my server, only the http operations the application performs to list the tools is something i see in my server logs. It knows there are tools, because it sees the list, it tells me when it's trying to connect to which tool. But that fails.

where are the MCP settings in Antigravity?

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by Yeroc »

cube2222 wrote: post #607
Yeroc wrote: post #605

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The Agent Manager view providing a unified view of all active agents and allowing you to immediately respond to any approval requests or followup questions looks very useful regardless of which VCS you're using under the covers. Am I missing something here that jj does?

See my setup detailed in another sibling comment of yours, jj is just a small part of it, and you can probably get that with git too. I’m already at full mental capacity planning and reviewing the work of two agents (one foreground which almost never asks for approval, and one background which never asks for approval). I don’t really need the ability to juggle more of them, and noticing their messages is not a bottle…

Fair enough. I use git worktrees (with a script that creates the git branch, worktree and opens a new vs code workspace). You're right, managing more than about two active sessions at once is probably the limit though I'm somewhat hopeful that better tooling similar to the Agent Manager window here would allow me to scale a bit past that especially if some of those sessions are more design explorations.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by sanex »

warkdarrior wrote: post #482
ithkuil wrote: post #442

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I'm an introvert and I love working with nice people. I just need some time by myself to recharge after all the social interactions.

As a team lead, working with people is so... cumbersome. They need time to recharge, lots of encouragement, and a nice place to work in. Give me a coding agent any time!

They don't like working on the cumbersome tickets, writing tests, documentation. Talking to businesspeople.
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