Antigravity enables developers to operate at a higher, task-oriented level by managing agents across workspaces, while retaining a familiar AI IDE experience at its core. Agents operate across the editor, terminal, and browser, enabling them to autonomously plan and execute complex, end-to-end tasks elevating all aspects of software development.
via: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/google-antigravity/about/
I've been using my current IDE for 17 years, and plan to continue using it for at least another 15
I wouldn't be even surprised if internally the AS team's financials are counted under the Playstore umbrella.
I still wouldn't trust a Google product to stick around, but these hints aren't a reliable oracle either.
- It's VS Code
Like clockwork!
- ai therapist for your ai agents
- genetic ai agent container orchestration; only the best results survive so they have to fight for their virtual lives
- prompt engineering as a service
- social media post generator so you can post "what if ai fundamentally changes everything about how people interact with software" think pieces even faster
- vector db but actually json for some reason
(Edit: formatting)
> Come join us! Programming is fun again! It's a whole new world up here!
- Nano Banana => Mockup
- Antigravity/IDE => Comments/note
- Gemini => Turn to code
- Antigravity/IDE => Adjust/code
All on the same platform so can maximum automate / "agentic"
Google at its finest
I'm not sure many engineers will welcome this "promotion".
If existing engineers don't change it doesn't matter because new engineers will take their place.
Car manufacturers made profit
Later edit: Probably this one [1], which is par for the course for Alphabet, they're, conceptually, still living in the early 2010s, when this stuff was culturally relevant.
Console error:
> Loading module from “https://antigravity.google/main-74LQFSAF.js” was blocked because of a disallowed MIME type (“text/html”).
Lotta people mining science fiction for cool names and then applying them to their crappy products, cheapening the source ideas.
We are in the future, it’s just a much more rubbish version than people imagined in scifi
Ah Google misconfigured their web server:
> Loading module from “https://antigravity.google/main-74LQFSAF.js” was blocked because of a disallowed MIME type (“text/html”).
Edit: And a couple minutes later, it is now working. Guess Google is reading HN.
I'm concerned that the new role of "manager of agents" (as google puts it) will be a soul destroying brain dead work and the morale won't be good.
> Model quota limit exceeded. You have reached the quota limit for this model.
Would be willing to bet this is the issue. Adding html files to context for gemini models results in a ton of token use.
EDIT: why must users care?
> Fork VS Code, add a few workflow / management ideas on top.
> "Agentic development platform"
I'm Jack's depressed lack of surprise.
Please someone, make me feel something with software again.
Unfortunately, once money came into the picture, quality, innovation, and anything resembling true progress flew out the window.
Trying to understand how this is anything net new in the space.
The software of the future, where nobody on staff knows how anything is built, no one understands why anything breaks, and cruft multiplies exponentially.
But at least we're not taken out of our flow!
And it's not like any of your criticisms don't apply to human teams. They also let cruft develop, are confused by breakages, and don't understand the code because everyone on the original team has since left for another company.
I dont know what i expected tbh
The task was to put create a header, putting the company logo in the corner and the text in the middle.
The resulting CSS was an abomination - I threw it all away and rewrote it from scratch (using my somewhat anemic CSS knowledge), ending up with like 3 selectors with like 20 lines of styles in total.
This made me think that 1: CSS and the way we do UI sucks, I still don't get why don't we have a graphical editor that can at least do the simple stuff well. 2: when these model's don't wanna do what you want them to the way you want them, they really don't wanna.
I think AI has shown us there's a need for a new generation of simple to write software and libraries, where translating your intent into actual code is much simpler and the tools actually help you work instead of barely allowing to fight be all the accidental complexity.
We were much closer to this reality back in the 90s when you opened up a drag and drop UI editor (like VB6, Borland Delphi, Flash), wrote some glue code and out came an .exe that you could just give to people.
Somewhere along the way, the cool kids came up with the idea that GUIs are bad, and everything needs to go through the command line.
Nowadays I need a shell script that configures my typescript CDK template (with its own NPM repo), that deploys the backend infra (which is bundled via node), the database schema, compiles the frontend, and puts the code into the right places, and hope to god that I don't run into all sorts of weird security errors because I didn't configure the security the way the browser/AWS/security middleware wanted to.
Those quota limits brought me back down to earth quickly.
That seems bad.
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