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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by fragmede »

tpoacher wrote: post #848

Slightly 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 an…

> I really miss the days of the professional casualness

Yes, the professional actor that doesn't seem like a paid actor is preferable to the autistic weirdo. That's why they get paid the big bucks and we get relegated to the basement.

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Post by egorfine »

It is my understanding that no experienced programmer would even consider touching that stuff given Google's stellar track record in developers' satisfaction.

I believe it is aimed at investors. Thus it will be forgotten the minute it stops influencing stock price.

Thus there is no need to take it literally as a developer tool - it's not.

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Post by moosedev »

egorfine wrote: post #854

It is my understanding that no experienced programmer would even consider touching that stuff given Google's stellar track record in developers' satisfaction. I believe it is aimed at investors. Thus it will be forgotten the minute it stops influencing stock price. Thus there is no need to take it literally as a developer tool - it's not.

> I believe it is aimed at investors.

I think it’s more likely aimed at the (internal) promotion committee.

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Post by dsmurrell »

egorfine wrote: post #854

It is my understanding that no experienced programmer would even consider touching that stuff given Google's stellar track record in developers' satisfaction. I believe it is aimed at investors. Thus it will be forgotten the minute it stops influencing stock price. Thus there is no need to take it literally as a developer tool - it's not.

Yes... also, why would I use this when it will get shut down soon?

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by wartywhoa23 »

apical_dendrite wrote: post #764
CamperBob2 wrote: post #451

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- 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…

> It's what we're supposed to be doing. Why?

Because venture capital managers say so.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by brazukadev »

egorfine wrote: post #854

It is my understanding that no experienced programmer would even consider touching that stuff given Google's stellar track record in developers' satisfaction. I believe it is aimed at investors. Thus it will be forgotten the minute it stops influencing stock price. Thus there is no need to take it literally as a developer tool - it's not.

This is very true. 10 years ago I'd be one of the first to try. Now? Thanks, I'm good

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by stingraycharles »

moosedev wrote: post #855
egorfine wrote: post #854

It is my understanding that no experienced programmer would even consider touching that stuff given Google's stellar track record in developers' satisfaction. I believe it is aimed at investors. Thus it will be forgotten the minute it stops influencing stock price. Thus there is no need to take it literally as a developer tool - it's not.

> I believe it is aimed at investors. I think it’s more likely aimed at the (internal) promotion committee.

That’s what it feels like yes. It has a lot of overlap with a ton of stuff that Google already does, and it seems like it’s one of those “rather than improving an existing product, let’s create a new one because that gets us a promotion” situations which Google is well known for.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by rafark »

fooqux wrote: post #146
pooyamo wrote: post #136

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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.

Well it's a helluva lot faster to make for one. For two, just about everyone knows how to navigate in vscode by now. Reducing the barrier of entry has obvious advantages.

> just about everyone knows how to navigate in vscode by now.

I don’t know and honestly I hate the assumption of the software industry that everyone knows or uses vs code. I stuck to sublime for years until I made the switch to Jetbrains IDEs earlier this year.

I quickly looked up the market share and VS code seems to have about 70% which is a lot but the 30% that don’t use it is not that small of a number either.

Like I get it it’s very popular but it’s far from the only editor/IDE people use.

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