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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by pjc50 »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #684
pjc50 wrote: post #483

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What other UI framework looks as good on Windows, Mac and Linux?

This question is so easy to answer: Qt! Signed by: Person who frequently shills for Qt on HN. :)

Could you suggest an example such application we can try / look at screenshots of?

(I've been aware of Qt for like two decades; back in the early 2000s my employer was evaluating such options as Tk, wxWindows, and ultimately settled on Java, I think with AWT. Qt seems to have a determined survival niche in "embedded systems that aren't android"?)

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by senbrow »

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…

As someone who used to work there, Google will never get product releases right in general because of how bureaucratic and heavyweight their launch processes are.

They force the developing team to have a huge number of meetings and email threads that they must steer themselves to check off a ridiculously large list of "must haves" that are usually well outside their domain expertise.

The result is that any non-critical or internally contentious features get cut ruthlessly in order to make the launch date (so that the team can make sure it happens before their next performance review).

It's too hard to get the "approving" teams to work with the actual developers to iron these issues out ahead of time, so they just don't.

Buck passed, product launched.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by ithkuil »

discreteevent wrote: post #587
warkdarrior wrote: post #482

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As a team lead, working with people is so... cumbersome. They need time to recharge, lots of encouragement, and a nice place to work in. Give me a coding agent any time!

As a PM working with team leads is so cumbersome...

I wish I could automate PMs :-p

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by MangoToupe »

bradfa wrote: post #415
MangoToupe wrote: post #381

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Also, agents have no capacity to learn.

They have a capacity to "learn", it's just WAY MORE INVOLVED than how humans learn. With a human, you give them feedback or advice and generally by the 2nd or 3rd time the same kind of thing happens they can figure it out and improve. With an LLM, you have to specifically setup a convoluted (and potentially financially and electrical power expensive) system in order to provide MANY MORE examples of how to improve via…

Retraining (or fine tuning) isn't the same thing at all and I think that's obvious

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by MangoToupe »

Sammi wrote: post #520
shermantanktop wrote: post #444

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- don't learn from what you tell them - don't have career growth that you can feel good about having contributed to - don't have a genuine interest in accomplishment or team goals - have no past and no future. When you change companies, they won't recognize you in the hall. - no ownership over results. If they make a mistake, they won't suffer.

- don't learn from what you tell them Whenever I have a model fix something new I ask it to update the markdown implementation guides I have in the docs folder in my projects. I add these files to context as needed. I have one for implementing routes and one for implementing backend tests and so on. They then know how to do stuff in the future in my projects.

Ah, so it's like you have a junior developer that can't learn

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by DmitryBalabka »

dominicrose wrote: post #832
einpoklum wrote: post #300

Looking at that page makes me think I should go the other direction and switch from a graphical IDE to vim or something. You know, ground myself by adopting more gravity.

I agree that the name is horrible. It has Anti, gravity and Google in it. Vim and all other non-graphical tools are great because they work in WSL, they work in linux servers and they may even work in Docker containers, although sometimes you have to do something like: apk add vim

The name strange indeed. However, Gravity is able to connect to WSL in the same way as VSCode: Ctrl+P -> ">Remote-WSL: Connect to WSL"

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by TiredOfLife »

Etheryte wrote: post #214
pdntspa wrote: post #201

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Why is it so hard for these to be VSCode extensions and not forks?

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.

> They're actively defending their mote by allowing Copilot to do things in a way that extensions couldn't

That started to change in may.

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/05/19/openSourceAIE...

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/06/30/openSourceAIE...

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/11/04/openSourceAIE...

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by TiredOfLife »

candiddevmike wrote: post #182
kUdtiHaEX wrote: post #107

2020: every day a new JS framework is announced 2024: every day a new Chrome fork browser is announced 2025: every day a new AI IDE vscode fork is announced

AIUI the forks are required because Microsoft is gatekeeping functionality used by Copilot from extensions so they can't be used by these agents.

Has (kinda) not been true for half a year

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/05/19/openSourceAIE...

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by amsterdorn »

sangeeth96 wrote: post #164

With all due to respect to the folks working on Antigravity, this feels like a vibe-coded VSCode fork to me. Font sizes, icon sizes, panel sizes are all over the place (why?). To top it all off, the first request just failed with overload/quota exceeded errors (understandable, but still). Looks like I'll wait to see if Google cares about putting the polish into a VSCode fork that at least comes close to what Cursor d…

> feels like a vibe-coded VSCode fork

That's 100% what it is, and rushed at that. Competition is (generally) a good thing though, only time can tell which IDE comes out on top.

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