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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by fusslo »

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...

I've been thinking a lot about John Henry since this AI stuff has started

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by absoluteunit1 »

hawk_ wrote: post #659
absoluteunit1 wrote: post #491

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

For those discussions with the LLM do you just use Gemini chat or chat GPT etc... i.e. the chat interface?

Depends.

I’ve been actively using the first tier paid version of:

- GPT - Claude - Gemini

Usually it’s via the cli tool. (Codex, Claude code, Gemini cli)

I have a bunch of scripts setup that write to the tmux pane that has these chats open - so I’ll visually highlight something nvim and pipe that into either of the panes that have one of these tools open and start a discussion.

If I want it to read the full file, I’ll just use the TUIs search (they all use the @ prefix to search for files) and then discuss. If I want to pipe a few files, I’ll add the files I want to nvim quickfix list of literally pipe the files I want to a markdown file (with a full path) and discuss.

So yes - the chat interface in these cli tools mostly. I’m one of those devs that don’t leave the terminal much lol

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by crazygringo »

wiseowise wrote: post #230
ddp26 wrote: post #228

This whole blog post is seemingly about Google, not about the user. "Why We Built Antigravity" etc. "We want Antigravity to be the home base for software development in the era of agents" - cool, why would I as the user care about that?

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.

Investor money?

Google is highly profitable. It's not looking for investment, it's the one investing.

Maybe you are confusing it with OpenAI?

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by joeldg »

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…

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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by absoluteunit1 »

jatora wrote: post #722
absoluteunit1 wrote: post #491

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

it is absolutely poor skill, or disengenuous at best, for any coder to claim AI tools slow them down lol.

I didn’t make this claim.

I also have a personal rule that I will try something for at least 4 months actively before making my decision about it (programming language, new tools, or in this case AI assisted coding)

I made the claim that in my area of expertise - I have found that *most of the time it is faster to write something myself than I write out really detailed md file / prompt. It becomes more tedious to express myself via natural language then it is with code when I want something very specific done.

In these types of cases - writing the code myself, allows me to express the thing I want faster. Also, I like to code with the AI auto complete but still while this can be useful I sometimes disable it because it’s distracting and consistently incorrect with its predictions)

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