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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by PunchyHamster »

throwaway13337 wrote: post #439

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…

taking an entire product from competition just to repackage it with your own AI is wild

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by debarshri »

PunchyHamster wrote: post #881
throwaway13337 wrote: post #439

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…

taking an entire product from competition just to repackage it with your own AI is wild

Electron is built on top of v8, Edge uses chromium.

I think thats the beauty of opensource.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by aDyslecticCrow »

absoluteunit1 wrote: post #491
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...

Same here - completely relate. One thing I’ve noticed though that actually coding (without the use of AI; maybe a bit of tab auto-complete) is that I’m actually way faster when working in my domain than I am when using AI tools. Everytime I use AI tools in my domain-expertise area, I find it ends up slowing me down. Introducing subtle bugs, me having to provide insane amount of context and details (at which point it…

One AI workflow I rather like seems to have largely vanished from many modern tools. Use a very dumb simple model with syntax knowledge to autocomplete. It fills out what I'm about to type, and takes local variables and pass them to functions I wanna call.

It feels like just writing my own code but at 50% higher wpm. Especially if I can limit it to only suggest a single row; it prevents it from effecting my thought process or approach.

This is how the original GitHub copilot worked until it switched to a chat based more agentic behavior. I set it up locally with an old llama on my laptop and it's plenty useful for bash and c, and amazing for python. I ideally want a model trained only for code and not conversational at all, closer to the raw model trained to next-token predict on code.

I think this style just doesn't chew enough tokens to make tech CEOs happy. It doesn't benefit from a massive model and almost drains more networking than compute to run in the cloud.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by stefan_ »

charliebwrites wrote: post #461
throwaway13337 wrote: post #439

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…

> 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 see the VSCode management has been firmly redirected to prioritize GitHubs failing and behind "AI Coding" competition entry. When that will predictably falter expect them to lose interest in the editor all together.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by benrutter »

Does anyone here have a take on why so many people are forking VSCode instead of writing a plugin? Is AI codegen the kind of thing that would be impoasible with a plugin or something?

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by empath75 »

throwaway13337 wrote: post #439

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…

I tried messing around with it and it kept bombing out and when it did work, produced worse results than cursor.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by romulofff »

Had some issues setting up with my Google account, never went past the setup page. Some friends faced the same problem, but managed to advance by skipping installing extensions. Trying that now to see if it works!
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