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Re: Google Antigravity

#791
I downloaded Antigravity this morning and was able get this Mobius Clock debugged in a few minutes - then for the heck of it added a whole list of features! I'm blown away by how fast you can work. Yes, there were a series of problems, as expected whenever you attempt hard stuff, but at the end of the day, do check out the improved mobius clock!!! https://www.mobiusclock.com

Re: Google Antigravity

#792
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.

Pastor of Muppets

Re: Google Antigravity

#793

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>vscode fork I wonder why they are not trying to fixup something based on their own GUI stacks like Flutter or Compose Multiplatform. It seems only Zed is truly innovating in this space.

Making an IDE sounds like an insane amount of effort. FWIW, the Fuchsia team was working on an editor that had a Flutter UI when run in Fuchsia: https://xi-editor.io/frontends.html

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Re: Google Antigravity

#794
post #505

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)

> VSCode Which is on top of 'Chrome'. Interesting sandwich: Google-Microsoft-Google.

just to add to the sandwich somehow, vscode is mainly written in typescript

Re: Google Antigravity

#795

I gave it a fair shot. It is a vs code fork. There were some UI glitches. Some usability was better. Cursor has some real annoying usability issues - like their previous/next code change never going away and no way to disable it. Design of this one looks more polished and less muddy. I was working on a project and just continued with it. It was easy because they import setting from cursor. Feels like the browser wars…

The first patch release (released on launch day) says: "Messaging to distinguish particular users hitting their user quota limit from all users hitting the global capacity limits." So, collectively we're hitting the quota, its not just your quota. (One would think Google might know how to scale their services on launch day...) The Documentation ( https://antigravity.google/docs/plans ) claims that "Our modeling sugge…

With Ultra I hit that limit in 20 minutes with Gemini 3 low. When the rate limit cleared some hours later, I got one prompt before hitting limit again.

Re: Google Antigravity

#796

I gave it a fair shot. It is a vs code fork. There were some UI glitches. Some usability was better. Cursor has some real annoying usability issues - like their previous/next code change never going away and no way to disable it. Design of this one looks more polished and less muddy. I was working on a project and just continued with it. It was easy because they import setting from cursor. Feels like the browser wars…

> after about 20 mins - oh, no. Out of credits.

And the say:

Our modeling suggests that a very small fraction of power users will ever hit the per-five-hour rate limit, so our hope is that this is something that you won’t have to worry about, and you feel unrestrained in your usage of Antigravity

You have to wonder what kind of models did they run for this.

Re: Google Antigravity

#797
post #489

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VSCode IS chrome though.

Kind of like how Android is linux.

More like "OBS is Qt". Which it is not, OBS uses Qt. And Chrome is just a runtime and GUI framework for VS Code. Let's not confuse forks of software with software built on something.

Re: Google Antigravity

#798
On Windows, it behaves like a malware. Suddenly flashing command prompt windows when you interact with it. Not very nice (also, lazy, since you don't need to do that flashing if you're a legitimate app).

Re: Google Antigravity

#799
I don’t really understand, if replacing developers is right around the corner, why throw money into so many IDEs. Or perhaps it’s really cheap to produce something like this?

Re: Google Antigravity

#800
post #525

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Microsoft has very specific constraints on what extensions can and can't do, it's not a free for all. They're actively defending their mote by allowing Copilot to do things in a way that extensions couldn't. That's why all the serious contenders make a fork, it's simply not possible to have the same integration otherwise.

A bit tangential, but I asked the new Gemini model about this, and it immediately traced back this quote to your username: https://gemini.google.com/share/144b46094d6e Creepy stuff :)

Because it just searches Google and HN is indexed regularly, nothing really noteworthy. If you copy paste the same quote into Google you get the same thing.
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