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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by vimto »

eugene-kim wrote: post #934

Lots of commenters are simply calling this a VSCode fork and I think they're missing something important as far as how this product fits into the market. Anthropic and OpenAI are investing a lot into this space and are now competing directly with companies like Cursor. Cursor's biggest moat at the moment is their tab completion model, which doesn't exist in the Anthropic's and OpenAI's current offerings and is league…

Yeah I've used it today quite heavily and I genuinely feel it's given me the best AI workflow yet, and I say this coming from Jetbrains + Claude Code.

Personally I felt having immediate access to the VSCode extension ecosystem to be a huge boon and I quickly got a setup to my liking.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by latexr »

jfim wrote: post #367
cube2222 wrote: post #301

I'll be honest - this doesn't look half-bad. It really seems like it's just standardizing into a first-class UI what a lot of people have already been doing. I don't think I'm the target for this - I already use Claude Code with jj workspaces and a mostly design-doc first workflow, and I don't see why I would switch to this, but I think this could be quite useful for people who don't want to dive in so deep and combi…

Hadn't heard of jj, it's a source control tool that advertises that it's fast and compatible with the git on disk format. https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj

Lots of discussion about it on HN if you want to explore more.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952796

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30398662

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45083952

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44641961

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by archon810 »

vimto wrote: post #941
eugene-kim wrote: post #934

Lots of commenters are simply calling this a VSCode fork and I think they're missing something important as far as how this product fits into the market. Anthropic and OpenAI are investing a lot into this space and are now competing directly with companies like Cursor. Cursor's biggest moat at the moment is their tab completion model, which doesn't exist in the Anthropic's and OpenAI's current offerings and is league…

Yeah I've used it today quite heavily and I genuinely feel it's given me the best AI workflow yet, and I say this coming from Jetbrains + Claude Code. Personally I felt having immediate access to the VSCode extension ecosystem to be a huge boon and I quickly got a setup to my liking.

Have you tried Cursor though? To me, that is the system to beat.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by magackame »

karel-3d wrote: post #880
tnolet wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After using Google AI studio, Google Vertex, and Google Gemini Chat I honestly can't wait to use Google Antigravity! edit: Also Jules... snark off: I think the Google PMs should have coffee together and see if all of this sprawl makes any sense.

Wasn't there something called Bard at some point?

Bard is the old name of Gemini

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by big_man_ting »

SR2Z wrote: post #940
big_man_ting wrote: post #829

Earlier quoted context omitted.

perhaps you were feeding into its the context your whole node_modules folder? :/

You'd really hope that an AI IDE would know to respect .gitignore

you'd hope so, the same way you'd hope that AI IDEs would not show these package/dependency folder contents when referencing files using @ - but i still get shown a bunch of shit that i would never need to reference by hand

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by verst »

senbrow wrote: post #902
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-critic…

As someone who just GA'd an Azure service - things aren't all that different in Azure. Not sure how AWS does service launches but it would be interesting to contrast with GCP and Azure.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by neysofu »

badenglish wrote: post #897

Once upon a time, all you needed to program was a compiler. Now, it's moving toward paying to write code. This will certainly kill open source

All of this is entirely optional. You're free to code the "old-fashiond" way, if you so prefer.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by koiueo »

0x696C6961 wrote: post #681
koiueo wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have Cursor at work. The only element of the interface I'm using (and know how to use) is the chat window. IMO, it's an absolutely crappy IDE, crappy editor, with absolutely incomprehensible hostile UI. I have almost two decades of experience with Vim, Emacs and IntelliJ. FWIW, I was able to easily find my ways in helix, kakoune and Zed.

https://cursor.com/cli

There are some Enterprise plan shenanigans, so cli is not an option.

At home I use claude and gemini in terminal, both work great for me

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