This looks like an experimental IDE, which is fine. The whole AI bubble is an experiment. It will burst and that's OK as well.
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That's like saying news.ycombinator.com is based on Chromium. VSCode runs on chromium, like any website you visit when using a Chromium browser.
To the downvoter: VSCode -> Electron (essentially purpose specific web browser) -> Chromium news.ycombinator.com -> General Purpose Web Browser -> Chromium
Ever heard of Firefox or Safari? I can open HN in any browser I want, but I can't change the browser used by the VSCode desktop app.
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#843Another VS code fork?
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Until someone finally figures out that we need to rethink editors from the ground up to support different sort of operations and editing experience, to better facilitate LLMs doing work as agents. But we're probably 1-2 years away from there still, so we'll live with skinned-forks, VSCode extensions and TUIs for now.
Antigravity's agent manager tries do to that. For example, it has an inbox for agent updates and requests for user decisions.
Antigravity is build on top of VSCode, I meant something completely different, not just a "feature" of something else.
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#845It's a hard sell for Cursor users using Gemini 3 to switchover to AntiGravity. There's nothing innovative they have introduced for me to switch IDEs.
the thing is, I tried it and it took 10 seconds to import all settings from cursor. the moat for vscode clones is really small. i imagine people will jump a lot from clone to clone, like from model to model now.
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#846Pressing the "Submit" button on their "Google Antigravity for Organizations Interest Form" (https://antigravity.google/interest-form) doesn't actually do anything for me (tried Firefox and Chrome) -> their metrics will indicate that there's no interest from organizations -> the product will be killed in a year.
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#847Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's like saying news.ycombinator.com is based on Chromium. VSCode runs on chromium, like any website you visit when using a Chromium browser.
To the downvoter: VSCode -> Electron (essentially purpose specific web browser) -> Chromium news.ycombinator.com -> General Purpose Web Browser -> Chromium
That's quite the unsmart comparison.
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#848Slightly off-topic, but I really hate this trend that now every developer / researcher / engineer also needs to be an actor (typically cringy one) pretending to be quirky for the camera while trying to act unnaturally excited about the technology.
I really miss the days of the professional casualness and naturalness of something like the "mother of all demos" [0]. Like, can you imagine the guy wearing a turtleneck and going, "but wait!" and acting surprised after every sentence? It would NOT have been the same demo.
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#849Earlier quoted context omitted.
You wouldn’t. It’s made to suck out investor money and show that google does something, not to actually bring value. My crystal ball says it will be shutdown next year.
I know Google is quick to shut things down but these ultra-cynical ultra-skeptical HN takes are so tiresome at this point.
I wonder why is that.
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#850The 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...
> The agentic spam is exhausting. I just wanted to code.
Ability to code within an IDE will not make shareholders happy while shoving AI down developers' throats most definitely will.