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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by chipsrafferty »

kccqzy wrote: post #551
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #503

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>it is madness to require so many acknowledgements Really? Madness? "We started with VS Code to develop our IDE...". Oh, so onerous. A thank you to the principle developers is a minimum if you're using someone else's work commercially and aren't an asshole. No it's not a legal requirement, it's just about being a good part of society.

Yes, madness. VS Code wasn’t developed entirely by Microsoft. It uses plenty of other open source libraries. Why is it that VS Code should be acknowledged but not the underlying V8 engine, or Chromium, or WebKit or KHTML? Stallman said that in 1997 there were 75 acknowledgements in a single piece of software. With today’s trend of micro libraries on npm, there will be at least thousands of acknowledgements in one pie…

So what?

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by zeven7 »

noxa wrote: post #280
modeless wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

+1 - it also doesn't support remote ssh (the open vsx variant), so is probably only focused at local web design development vibe coding ;( Should have just been an extension with a paid plan.

I’m using remote ssh with it via the same plugin and settings I use in VS Code.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by broodbucket »

cindori wrote: post #335
jihadjihad wrote: post #51

> Spin up agents to tackle routine tasks that take you out of your flow, such as codebase research, bug fixes, and backlog tasks. The software of the future, where nobody on staff knows how anything is built, no one understands why anything breaks, and cruft multiplies exponentially. But at least we're not taken out of our flow!

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I do still write assembly sometimes, and it's a valued skill because it'll always be important and not everyone can do it. Compilers haven't obsoleted writing assembly by hand for some use cases, and LLMs will never obsolete actually writing code either. I would be incredibly cautious about throwing all your eggs into the AI basket before you atrophy a skill that fewer and fewer will have

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by no_wizard »

vovavili wrote: post #465
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

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

What’s long term exactly? Between VSCode and previous winners Brackets and Atom Electron has been in this space in the top 5 for 20 years already.

I think the ship sailed

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by onion2k »

leoff wrote: post #317
ayhanfuat wrote: post #40

On the pricing page it says that for public preview they are offering a free individual plan with "generous rate limits". I gave it an HTML file and asked it to create Jinja templates from it and 2 minutes later (still planning, no additional prompt) I got this: > Model quota limit exceeded. You have reached the quota limit for this model.

I think the models are under high load right now, and not working properly.

So the error messaging is wrong, giving the user the impression it's their fault for not paying. I think that's worse..

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by onion2k »

skeeter2020 wrote: post #306
bakies wrote: post #86

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After a bunch of people leave the company it's already like nobody knows how anything is built. This seems like a good thing to accelerate understanding a codebase.

it's funny - nervous funny, not haha funny - that you think drawing a real issue like this out into the open would focus an organization on solving it.

There is a lot more money in selling a tool to manage a problem rather than solve a problem.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by hollowturtle »

dyauspitr wrote: post #731
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...

You might as well be saying you want to make physical architecture draft drawings.

Wrong. Continuing with the architect metaphor, he doesn't understandably want to delegate digital draft drawings to a non predictable statical tool ridden with idiosyncracies and biases based off mostly on poor open source training data and write some dumb architect.md to try steer the will of the tool. He wants to design and do it better with some highly integrated hidden ai. So far whenever I heard product x says that has AI, most of the time is a product with zero real integration and just a chatbot in a separate window

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by hollowturtle »

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...

Turn off the noise, just keep coding and get better at it, go all-in with the fundamentals it will pay off over time. You can leverage autocomplete to go as fast as you can, don't waste your time writing md files, most of the world still does hand coding, sure with some ai assistance, but without totally ceding control. They want you to believe the contrary to keep the bubble inflating or to sell you some ai courses where you spend hundreds of dollars for "learning" how to please a statical tool into doing what you want to do, spoiler alert it eventually won't and steer away in unpredictable ways

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by chamomeal »

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.

Yeah I also thought that was weird. Ctrl-f’d for vscode and was pretty confused that they didn’t even mention it.
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