I'm very surprised, goggle are usually known for their customer focused approach and long standing support of legacy systems!
I'm so impressed with their support, very proactive and easy to reach. Whenever I had issues, they're always there to help.
Google's Antigravity bait and switch
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Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
As long as the legacy systems have billions of users. Otherwise they get shutdown once people run out of interest. See https://killedbygoogle.com/
You might have missed it but the OP's comment was dripping in literal sarcasm. Google's track record for product management is poor.
> literal sarcasm
As opposed to the usual, figurative sarcasm. (Just kidding.)
Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#73I'm very surprised, goggle are usually known for their customer focused approach and long standing support of legacy systems!
OP is lucky they aren't getting ads while the agent is working.
Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#74I'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?
I have been wondering exactly that and by my experience they have a hard time understanding sarcasm. It is a natural prompt injection.
Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#75I was surprised people were so willing to jump to closed source IDEs just for access to coding agents. The trade-off you pay for tight integration between the IDE and the coding agent is lock-in because the barrier to switching IDEs is nontrivial. Your coding environment stands a lower chance of disruption when you use an open source IDE with a CLI agent. Yes it's slightly annoying to separate the agent from the IDE…
Antigravity is just a vs code (more correctly: codeium) skin with Google telemetry and agent Integration. You can switch back to Microsoft's or cursor's flavor in minutes.
It isn't anymore, though, that's kind of the whole point of the article.
Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#76I 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…
Pissing off the segment of people most likely to take offense and try to take revenge seems pretty dumb. No wonder they are losing massively to Huawei in several markets. Mobile marketshare is probably an indicator of some kind of their future prospects.
> Mobile marketshare is probably an indicator of some kind of their future prospects.
I don't like Google either, but I don't think this is a fair comparison.
It's easy for anyone to beat Google in China when the state has decided to block their servers.
Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#77I 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…
They could just call it anything else and left the existing user alone. I mean they have gemini CLI, which I would say a better product.
I think that's what everyone is going to think.
Hot take: At least they're ripping the bandaid now instead of stringing users along and eventually abandoning it like they normally do.
Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#78I was surprised people were so willing to jump to closed source IDEs just for access to coding agents. The trade-off you pay for tight integration between the IDE and the coding agent is lock-in because the barrier to switching IDEs is nontrivial. Your coding environment stands a lower chance of disruption when you use an open source IDE with a CLI agent. Yes it's slightly annoying to separate the agent from the IDE…
Antigravity is just a vs code (more correctly: codeium) skin with Google telemetry and agent Integration. You can switch back to Microsoft's or cursor's flavor in minutes.
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Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might have missed it but the OP's comment was dripping in literal sarcasm. Google's track record for product management is poor.
> literal sarcasm As opposed to the usual, figurative sarcasm. (Just kidding.)
“literal sarcasm” is using “literal” figuratively.
Re: Google's Antigravity bait and switch
#80I was surprised people were so willing to jump to closed source IDEs just for access to coding agents. The trade-off you pay for tight integration between the IDE and the coding agent is lock-in because the barrier to switching IDEs is nontrivial. Your coding environment stands a lower chance of disruption when you use an open source IDE with a CLI agent. Yes it's slightly annoying to separate the agent from the IDE…
Fwiw, the (mostly) closed source jetbrains IDEs support multiple models with their coding agents, byok, and using different agents like Claude Code via ACP