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.
Anyway, I figured it was the only way to use gemini 3 so I got started. A fast model that doesn't look for much context. Could be a preprompt issue. But you have to prod it do stuff - no ambition and a kinda offputting atitude like 2.5.
But hey - a smarter, less context rich Cursor composer model. And that's a complement because the latest composer is a hidden gem. Gemini has potential.
So I start using it for my project and after about 20 mins - oh, no. Out of credits.
What can I do? Is there a buy a plan button? No? Just use a different model?
What's the strategy here? If I am into your IDE and your LLM, how do I actually use it? I can't pay for it and it has 20 minutes of use.
I switched back to cursor. And you know? it had gemini 3 pro. Likely a less hobbled version. Day one. Seems like a mistake in the eyes of the big evil companies but I'll take it.
Real developers want to pay real money for real useful things.
Google needs to not set themselves up for failure with every product release.
If you release a product, let those who actually want to use it have a path to do so.
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nateb2022
I went ahead and downloaded it, it looks to be a VSCode fork very similar to Cursor, with support for the following models:
- Gemini 3 Pro (High)
- Gemini 3 Pro (Low)
- Claude Sonnet 4.5
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking)
- GPT-OSS 120B (Medium)
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eugene-kim
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 leagues ahead of Github Copilot's.
Antigravity is a VSCode fork that adds both Google's own tab complete and an agent composer, similar to products like https://conductor.build/. Assuming that Google doesn't shoot themselves in the foot (which they seem to like doing), we'll see if wrappers like Cursor / Windsurf / Cognition can compete against the big labs. It's worth noting that the category seems to be blurring, since Cursor has trained not only their own tab complete model but also their own agent model.
uatec
"Congratulations, you have been elevated to manager to agents."
That's not exactly really where I hoped my career would lead. It's like managing junior developers, but without having nice people to work with.
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kUdtiHaEX
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
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ddp26
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?
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ayhanfuat
On the pricing page it says that for public preview they are offering a free individual plan with "generous rate limits". I gave it an HTML file and asked it to create Jinja templates from it and 2 minutes later (still planning, no additional prompt) I got this:
> Model quota limit exceeded. You have reached the quota limit for this model.
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lbrito
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...
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jihadjihad
> Spin up agents to tackle routine tasks that take you out of your flow, such as codebase research, bug fixes, and backlog tasks.
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!
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AbstractH24
It's fascinating to me how far they de-emphasize product screenshots on the website, even in the video on it. And the pricing page is all but blank.
Really reflects how companies are prioritizing hype and adoption over product quality.
(now off to download it...)
sippeangelo
> Neither engenders user trust in the work that the agent undertook. Antigravity provides context on agentic work at a more natural task-level abstraction, with the necessary and sufficient set of artifacts and verification results, for the user to gain that trust.
I'm going to need an AI summary of this page to even start comprehending this... It doesn't help that the scrolling makes me nauseous, just like real anti-gravity probably would.
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carabiner
Does anyone notice that this story has had almost the same number of points and comments for 24 hours?
sega_sai
I wanted to like it as a Gemini Pro subscriber who does not want to also pay for Claude Code, but after running Antigravity for ~ 10 minutes, and a few back and forward exchanges I got the 'Model quota limit exceeded' message with no indication when it will reset.
You get the impression that these products from Google (including Gemini CLI ) are just made as prototypes -- they are supposed to work as a demo, but Google does not actually care about having a working workflow with them. Claude Code on the other hand is an actual product that works well.
alkonaut
My heart really sinks every time someone launches a "new IDE" and it turns out to be VS Code. VSCode can be turned into an IDE for _some_ platforms. But not for others. It remains a text editor with some nice extras (syntax highlighting, navigation) but lacking others (debugger, testing, ...).
What's most astonishing is that I can't seem to find what actual platforms it works for. I don't doubt the LLM's can write code in almost any language and for almost all frameworks, with varying success.
But which languages/platforms/framework will the IDE work for technically, having compilers etc built in? I don't care if an LLM can help me with the code, if I then can't compile it within the same IDE!
Am I going crazy or are they just handwaving the _actual_ development tasks in all this?
cube2222
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 combine raw tooling themselves.
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spuz
> Your new focus is architecting the solution, not implementing every single step. So congratulations, you have been elevated to a manager of agents.
I'm not sure many engineers will welcome this "promotion".
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nasretdinov
- A new "AI" IDE announced
- It's VS Code
Like clockwork!
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sangeeth96
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 did.
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Voultapher
Quoting their own video:
> You can verify your code quality at a glance, then ship with absolute confidence.
Proclaiming absolute confidence after a glance leaves me with scant confident in the merit of the confidence.
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antimora
Why is scrolling modified on this page? I how to disable it?
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giancarlostoro
I just have zero faith in Google. How long until we hear that someone mysteriously got banned by Google (as we see on HN every few months? it feels like it anyway) and hear about how now they have no AI tooling etc etc etc because its all married to their Google Account.
Additionally... Google Code was shut down in 2016? I have zero confidence in such a user hostile company. They gave you a Linux phone, they extended it, and made it proprietary. They gave you a good email account, extended it and made it proprietary. They took away office software from you via Google Docs, so now you don't even own the software they do.
Trying to understand how this is anything net new in the space.
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TIPSIO
I actually like the workflow they are suggesting. There's something there for sure:
- 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"
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mccoyb
> Bajillions of dollars invested in the development of some of the most powerful computational artifacts to date.
> 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.
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aeternum
Product leaders that apply world-changing technology breakthrough names to their yet-another cloned SaaS product deserve more shame.
Antigravity would be a world-changing technology. This isn't.
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Slogsworth
I recognize the guys in the video, they were in marketing videos for the Windsurf IDE before its founding team was cannibalized by/absorbed into Google.
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nthypes
This is a vibe-coded VSCode fork. In a simple task, I got overload/quota exceeded errors with horrible error handling. lol
I used to love leaving that site open on public PCs and watching the reactions that resulted :)
hugs
""Autonomously, an Antigravity Agent writes code for a new frontend feature, uses the terminal to launch localhost, and actuates the browser to test that the new feature works."
very interesting times; i'm glad to see browser automation becoming more mainstream as part of the ai-assisted dev loop for testing. (disclosure: started the selenium project, now working on something similar for a vibe coding context)
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antiloper
> Cross-surface Agents
Nice that it's built-in, Claude Code needs an MCP for this at least.
> User Feedback: Intuitively integrate feedback across surfaces and artifacts to guide and refine the agent’s work.
I wish they'd just let me edit the implementation plan directly instead of me having to explain the corrections. Claude Code has the same weakness. Explaining the corrections is slower than editing the plan manually, and it still keeps the incorrect text in context as well.
> An Agent-First Experience: Manage multiple agents at the same time
Sounds nice in theory but I assume you can run multiple agents for 5 minutes or so and then you're out of credits.
As a claude code user I'm not really sold on this product.
flipgimble
Google subscriptions and services are so terribly mismanaged that I will be staying away, no matter how incredible this shallow fork of vscode may be.
I remember a previous story months ago about Gemini that had Google PMs trying to hype their product, but it was all question about how nobody knows how to get Gemini API keys with any number of paid subscription.
I really don't know why I struggle so much with this stuff. I believe these models / agents / whatever write code that is often at least as good as the code I write, and they are super helpful tools, but it just feels like it takes away so much of the joy that is programming to me. I'm not saying it's "right" of me to feel this way, but for me the struggle, and the figuring things out by testing, identifying patterns, or looking deeper into a library's implementation (etc) is part of the challenge that makes programming and software construction fun.
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eranation
Petty nitpick, but this sentence doesn’t sound right
> “Google Antigravity's Editor view offers tab autocompletion, natural language code commands, and a configurable, and context-aware configurable agent.”
Is it a typo or was there a reason to add configurable twice?
bjord
heads up: it installs a persistent background process that silently squats on the default kafka client port (9092) at startup
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meetpateltech
> Google Antigravity is an agentic development platform, evolving the IDE into the agent-first era.
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.
This is the fruit of Windsurf brain-drain and I think it might be better than what's out there since those guys got to start from scratch from everything they learned building Windsurf
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adidoit
It's insane to me that I can't pay $20/$200 bucks after running out of limits in ~5 messages.
Why would you not at least link it to the pro and ultra accounts
at least you could upsell the pro subs to ultra. Millions of claude code and codex users who are into agentic coding is your servicable market paying attention today.
Now I'll delete antigravity and go back to codex / claude code / cursor ...
oytis
Haven't we got enough of new eras yet?
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tauntz
<snark>
Pressing the "Submit" button on their "Google Antigravity for Organizations
Interest Form" (https://antigravity.google/interest-form) doesn't actually do anything for me (tried Firefox and Chrome) -> their metrics will indicate that there's no interest from organizations -> the product will be killed in a year.
I spent a few days with Firebase Studio when it was announced. I stopped using it because it was clearly a very early alpha - tons of bugs, and didn't seem well thought out. Now, less than a few months later (!!!), they announce a competing IDE with essentially the same functionality, but a different brand? Is the right hand talking to the left?
efields
MacOS/Safari User here. Stuck on 'Setting Up Your Account' once I've authorized it in the browser. /shrug
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badenglish
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
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?
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tcsenpai
I was very hyped: maybe Google finally did something new, complete, unifying CLI and IDE, a sort of Claude Code Web but as an efficient, IDE-like, local thing.
Then I installed it and it was a VSCode fork.
bastawhiz
Nice, if I switch now it'll be killed in two to three years right around the time Zed has all the features that I want!
After the first five minutes of using it on Ubuntu, it crashed with error saying I don't have enough free memory, quick look into system stats proved that wasn't the case.
Anyway, not a great first impression. I guess I'll try again in a few months.
asgerhb
I have lamented the fact that download buttons can be hard to find on software home pages sometimes. But having just a download button and a "more" button on your landing page seems to be taking things a bit too far.
urbandw311er
Tangential I know but what a clumsy sounding name
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galaxyLogic
If I use this does it mean Google has access to all my code and it may popup as"AI generated" in someone else's code?
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robinduckett
Just sits on "Setting Up Your Account" pane and does nothing :)
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purpleflame1257
Can't wait for my IDE to get sunset on me with no recourse. Thanks google, but I'll pass.
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fourseventy
How long until they discontinue it?
Topfi
Tested it for roughly two hours now, far from ready for prime time, very buggy and clearly just quickly build on Windsurfs already rather issue laden code base. Essentially a less well thought out imitation of Trae's Solo mode, added in a second window on top of VSCode and not very well integrated, struggling with terminal commands and despite showing issues in the browser window and screenshot taken by the model, proclaiming the task to be completed. Tool calls also aren't as reliable as I would have expected considering their ownership of the code base, hard to tell whether that is underlying in the model (it was a major issue with 2.5 Pro) or simply Antigravity specific, hoping the latter.
Additionally, there are issues setting up accounts (Singapore VPN solved that for me), no support for Workspace users, only a free tier that requires data sharing, no additional rate limits for paying Pro or Ultra customers, etc. Even worse, Gemini CLI currently does NOT provide Gemini 3 Pro for Ultra Business customers despite paying over € 260,- per month, which is frankly ridiculous.
Will be honest, I was speculating that the reason for the multi month delay between the first A/B tests of Gemini 3 class models and the final release was so they'd have all their dugs in a row. Have some time to test everything, improve tooling, provide new paid subscriptions and/or ensure existing ones get access to everything day one, but they didn't.
Gemini 3 Pro seems very interesting (to early to say), but compared to every other recent launch by OpenAI (5, 5.1, Codex variants), Anthropic (Sonnet and Haiku 4.5), even Kimi (K2 Thinking) and Z.AI (GLM-4.6), this is by far the least organized launch of any frontier lab.
A buggy IDE which is unusable for paying customers, no CLI access for Ultra business (and none at all for Pro of any kind), etc. is frankly embarrassing when considering what competitors manage to provide the day a model launches.
What have they been working on these last two months besides going on X and posting "3" every couple of days? Why is there no paid Antigravity tier, no way to use Workspace accounts, etc? Before launching in this state, I feel it'd have been better to delay a bit more if it was absolutely needed.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the fourth or fifth IDE built by Google for LLM assisted coding? What happened to IDX and Firebase Studio and aren't they also based on VSCode?
qwertox
I can't get the agent to use my MCP server. The MCP config is provided, and the application can query the tools, but the agent can't access my server, only the http operations the application performs to list the tools is something i see in my server logs. It knows there are tools, because it sees the list, it tells me when it's trying to connect to which tool. But that fails.
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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!
rglover
We have a real, serious problem when even Google (presumably with a large share of the world's engineering might) is just forking VSCode.
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briandw
I tried it.
Maybe I got unlucky, but Gemini performed poorly in my testing.
I gave it a task that I was working on with VSCode and GPT codex 5.1.
Gemini3 repeatedly failed to finish the task and started to go down a rabbit hole on an unrelated task.
The browser extension is really cool and it provides a needed tool for the agent to use. It used the extension to show the page that it updated in the task document (the task doc is great too).
However it showed me a page and did it was done, when it was clearly not done and not what I asked for.
I was expecting weaker tooling and a better model. I got good tooling and a not very good model.
Maybe 3.1 will deliver?
sbinnee
Oh no. What's with the scrolling in the blog page. What a terrible experience. It's clearly vibe-coded and AI-tested. If a senior saw mingling with the scrolling behavior, it would have been never in production.
irilesscent
Seems interesting, makes for the second vscode clone with ai google has made. The demo they showed in the video avoided showing code so I guess thats what they're aiming for. Although when they mentioned you can easily verify code quality by looking at end product screenshots it felt like they don't know what 'code' quality means.
codepoet80
On my m2 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM, it took over 12 minutes to startup and get to a usable state. When it did, it was plainly just a jacked version of VSCode. Opening a project caused it to hang again. Dumped it. VSCodium, with the terminal pane open so I can talk to Claude works fine for me...
> Come join us! Programming is fun again! It's a whole new world up here!
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zkmon
The name sounds like it is not going to stick around for long.
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bufunobhmut
The amount of New Eras stuffed into New Eras is too damn high!
nthypes
It's a shame not even mention the amazing work of VSCode.
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binsquare
Is this what they recruited the windsurf team for a billion for?
tpoacher
Slightly off-topic, but I really hate this trend that now every developer / researcher / engineer also needs to be an actor (typically cringy one) pretending to be quirky for the camera while trying to act unnaturally excited about the technology.
I really miss the days of the professional casualness and naturalness of something like the "mother of all demos" [0]. Like, can you imagine the guy wearing a turtleneck and going, "but wait!" and acting surprised after every sentence? It would NOT have been the same demo.
I was genuinely impressed by the Antigravity browser plugin for "agentic" work.
I ran into a neat website and asked it to generate a similiar UX with Astro and it did a decent-ish job of seeing how the site handled scrolling visually and in code and replicating it in a tidy repo.
SilverSlash
I was never really a fan of Cursor. I'll use this if it's free and eventually gets generous free quotas.
WanderPanda
Small feedback if any of the Antigravity people read here: "Fast" is not a great name for the "eager" option (vs. "Planning") because "Fast" is associated with "dumb" in LLMs (fast/flash/mini). Probably "Eager" would be a more descriptive name
skatanski
I don’t really understand, if replacing developers is right around the corner, why throw money into so many IDEs. Or perhaps it’s really cheap to produce something like this?
martini333
I cannot see any difference than VS Code with a theme...
skerit
They even packaged it for Linux.
egorfine
It is my understanding that no experienced programmer would even consider touching that stuff given Google's stellar track record in developers' satisfaction.
I believe it is aimed at investors. Thus it will be forgotten the minute it stops influencing stock price.
Thus there is no need to take it literally as a developer tool - it's not.
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pjmlp
Apparently there are only three kinds of developers according to Google, and enterprise developers code mainly Next.js.
blitz_skull
"You know what I want? More Google inside my tools."
—No one, ever.
andrewk17
can't get past the "Setting up your account" step atm
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nomilk
> we added pieces that evolved the IDE towards an agent first future such as ... an additional novel agent-first form factor
"Novel agent-first form factor" feels very buzz-wordy. Does it refer to an actual feature?
jimmar
I installed it, entered one prompt, clicked the "Proceed" button, and got "Model quota limit exceeded."
Those quota limits brought me back down to earth quickly.
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w2seraph
Vibe coding has taken a way to where its become psychological, and these days all I work with is just a "fast apt" solution like Cursor's Composer 1, I tried Gemini 3 inside Cursor, and while I had no real application to a real stratified properly to benchmark it with, it felt "already slow" in a very fast race.
UncleOxidant
I keep getting: "Antigravity server crashed unexpectedly. Please restart to fully restore AI features." On Ubuntu 24.04 - others on reddit reporting the same with 24.04.
gnarlouse
So the whole world is a scam for your data now basically.
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jdthedisciple
So a VS Code fork. At this time, when VS Code is better than ever and ever improving. I think imma pass.
zk108
Until they stop supporting it and rug builders using it in typical Google fashion
siliconc0w
Trip report: I'm using it now to revamp a dashboard I'm working on. TBH it's not feeling much better than Codex - it couldn't figure out how to launch chrome with my default profile nor how to regenerate the css with tailwind. I'm also getting a lot of model quota errors like everyone else.
haritha-j
the agent keeps giving me errors. no thanks.
1zael
It's a hard sell for Cursor users using Gemini 3 to switchover to AntiGravity. There's nothing innovative they have introduced for me to switch IDEs.
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prodigycorp
Why is google so bad at product branding and strategy? My complaint is aesthetic: why would you name your product a five-syllable word??
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fosterfriends
Anyone else getting this error: "Agent execution terminated due to model provider overload. Please try again later."
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fedeb95
0$/month. Wow, someone is really pushing for widespread adoption.
ummonk
I'm stuck on "setting up this account" like most people. What a botched launch. This kind of bugginess and unreliability has become so much more frequent since big tech started tightening the screws with mass layoffs.
But honestly Google software seems so buggy. The management class took over there a long ago and are quietly ruining the company.
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modeitsch
the funny things is that you can use all the models but you cant switch the browser
bluerooibos
Read the title, got excited. Read the page.. ah well, guess we'll have to wait another while for FTL travel.
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ptdorf
And for the first time since I have this MacBook Pro (M2 2023) I heard and felt the fans. I was wondering if they were imaginary.
eeixlk
Maybe they should have used an ai to code an ide without all these glitches
noduerme
>>Google Antigravity's Editor view offers tab autocompletion, natural language code commands, and a configurable, and context-aware configurable agent.
Okay, but is it configurable? Also, can you configure it to write DRY code?
taco_emoji
I clicked around for ~30 seconds and I have no idea what this is. Great job, Google marketing
Fysi
Looks to be live but no content; OpenGraph description is "Google Antigravity - Build the new way".
kune
This thing crashes on Ubuntu LTS 24.04 during start. Apparently all these agents are not able to ensure that a desktop app starts on a popular Linux distribution.
If Google has forgotten how to do Software, than the future doesn't look bright.
stack_framer
That floating chess board was a subliminal message: Your project will teeter, and critical pieces will fall off. You will occasionally make an illegal move as the board annoyingly shifts beneath you.
kittensmittens5
The odds of me using a Google IDE are the same as me logging into my Google+ account to connect with friends.
makeavish
Tried Antigravity for 2 queries and my model quota limit breached. Model definitely felt better than GPT 5.1 (my current daily driver). I am continuing to use Gemini 3 Pro on Cursor to evaluate further.
recursive
Landing page instantly spun up the fan on my laptop. The animation was about 3fps.
I don't get how these agents can work when even Claude Sonnet 4.5 (for example) needs a lot of hand-holding for basic, simple bugfixing stuff. Wouldn't the agents just be huffing and puffing their way off the rails all the time?
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theflyinghorse
I couldn't get it to work on M1 mac. it spins forever on login screen.
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verdverm
Man does this thing spam new windows... why spawn new window instead of panels in a single instance?
I have to close 4+ after just a few minutes of poking around
egypturnash
Did they build this site with Antigravity because it sure is broken on my iPad.
dangayle
Just throw it onto the pile, I guess
fcsp
Did any of these VS Code forks yet fix their issues from official marketplace access leading to extensions being severely outdated and ripe with security issues?
CSMastermind
In my first test of it, it's pretty bad. Guess I'm sticking to codex.
tonghohin
Well, I can't even use it at all, it's just stuck on the 'Setting Up Your Account' step forever. That's a pretty sad product launch lol.
charliewallace
I downloaded Antigravity this morning and was able get this Mobius Clock debugged in a few minutes - then for the heck of it added a whole list of features! I'm blown away by how fast you can work. Yes, there were a series of problems, as expected whenever you attempt hard stuff, but at the end of the day, do check out the improved mobius clock!!! https://www.mobiusclock.com
I'm not switching from Claude code. It did the job but didn't do it as good as Claude Code with the details and context.
skeeter2020
you would need to be bonkers to trust Google at the intersection of 1. vibe coding, 2. supporting developers, and 3. a product that's not selling ads
TZubiri
The problem with this whole product category is that vcs cannot track what was actually the source input and what was generated.
If I write "float exp(float base, float exp){"
Then that is the source code and the rest is generated. Mixing it all up is as dumb as uploading a compiled binary or bytecode to git.
Especially annoying when you are working with other people and you can't tell what they actually wrote and know about.
torginus
I don't want to hate on this but I remember last week, when as a backend developer doing frontend, I spent about 20 minutes prompting Claude Sonnet in a loop trying to build a landing page for a new feature.
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.
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qoez
I probably wouldn't have been drawn to coding if I was young these days based on the same motivations that led me to venture into it as a teen.
tin7in
I tried it and ran out of credits during the first prompt. No visible way to upgrade or purchase.
Fraaaank
Anyone else stuck on 'setting up your account'?
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BigParm
Even if this is good, I'll never know because I'm not investing time into something that will be canceled in one year.
dehugger
Nice that you can use non-Gemini models with it
arbuge
I've clocked out on agentic AI IDEs. Not installing anymore until I hit an obvious wall with my current ones.
Barry-Perkins
Interesting concept! Curious to see how Google Antigravity works and what practical applications it might have.
c4kar
I know it is not place to seek help but anyone else stuck while trying changing google accounts ?
hereme888
Are they explicitly excluding OpenAI in their IDE? (gpt-oss running on Google cloud doesn't count)
t1234s
Is it safe to use these types of AI enhanced editors with files that contain sensitive information?
izzydata
Meanwhile I don't feel like the era of AI assisted software development has even started.
phreeza
Can someone inside comment if this is this a cider fork or a new branch off vscode?
drooopy
I wonder how long they're gonna keep this around before they pull the plug.
aespinoza
I downloaded it, but I was not even able to get past `Account Set Up`. :(
balls187
Okay, maybe I'm stupid, but the demo video included pasting and API key into the chat window.
That seems bad.
yakattak
This could have been a plugin.
0xblinq
As if this was something one could trust it won't be shut down 3 years from now...
No thanks...
mulquin
Not interested in trying something that will be killed shortly.
anticensor
It's impossible to use it, stuck in the loading screen forever
pulkitsh1234
Seems like they are trying to attack both Cursor and Lovable at the same time...nice !
nafizh
There's no way I am using such an important piece of life as an IDE from Google just because I know they are going to kill it within 3 years, if it survives that much. Probably will die with the Windsurf guy jumping ship again.
NoSalt
No ... no, thank you. Keep your AI away from me and my stuff.
bflesch
I just feel second-hand embarrassment when seeing these kind of posts.
AbuAssar
so this is what Google was doing with their 2.5B Windsurf acquisition...
robofanatic
Something felt really "artificial" about that youtube video.
mrzool
I wonder how many meetings where necessary to come up with that name
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dudu24
I cannot stand webpages that hijack scrolling like that.
xinghai
Anyone got stuck on the "Setting Up Your Account" page ?
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phyzome
It's really kind of pathetic how we live in a future where "antigravity" is a text editor that lies to you, "hoverboards" are one-wheeled electric skateboards that burn your house down, and... well, can't think of a third thing at the moment, but you know the vibe.
Lotta people mining science fiction for cool names and then applying them to their crappy products, cheapening the source ideas.
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vincelt
It's 2025 and a code editor is now 600MB.
lucideer
Really hope the quality of the IDE is better than the website...
booleandilemma
What's an "enterprise developer"? Is that what normal people call a "backend developer"?
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clever-leap
So deceptive name. It has nothing to do with gravity.
seanw444
I've seen "agent" and "agentic" so many times in the last few months that the usage of the term is quickly becoming one of my biggest pet peeves. The previous one was "enshittification", and I'm glad that one was a short-lived fad.
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dehugger
Nice to see that it's not locked to just Gemini models
chris_pie
That's a big name for a slop fork. So many possibilities (with LLMs and without) but Google just can't bring themselves to do anything creative, let alone transformative.
mike_ivanov
New Era.
A New - think about it for a sec - Era.
dominicrose
This looks like an experimental IDE, which is fine. The whole AI bubble is an experiment. It will burst and that's OK as well.
htrp
Google AI products are the new chat product
foofoo12
I worked in a factory one summer when I was a teenager. It was a totally brain dead work, but the morale was good. The workers weren't unhappy.
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.
dwa3592
why isn't antigravity finishing the setup on my mac? it's been more than half an hour.
weird name. abbreviating it to GAG isn't much better.
Towaway69
What I don't get is why they didn't fork emacs, then build a VScode mode and then add AI to that.
I guess it must have been the GPL which isn’t compatible with their AI agents.
Oh, wait I was meant to take this announcement seriously?
alganet
On Windows, it behaves like a malware. Suddenly flashing command prompt windows when you interact with it. Not very nice (also, lazy, since you don't need to do that flashing if you're a legitimate app).
moneywoes
what's the value prop over cursor
rounakdatta
Vim mode isn't working, oh no!
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gowld
Why is this not a VS Code Extension?
CuriouslyC
Neat, but the world doesn't need another IDE, and people want choice. Provide tools that plug into open workflows and step back.
999900000999
Oh lucky, another free AI beta.
I'm going to treat this like Kiro, and just use it until they start charging for it and then probably switch back to VS code with its built-in agent support.
Eventually they're going to do a rug pull, and instead of paying $10 a month for tons of AI code request, it's going to be two or $300 for that. The economics just aren't there to actually make a profit, hopefully before the rug pool happens local models on normal hardware will be fast enough.
purpleidea
Nobody is interested in proprietary editors. People only accepted vscode because most of it was open source. AIUI this is a fork of that, but seriously, push out the changes or pass.
karlkloss
Finally! Affordable antigravity!
juancn
How long until it's killed?
I mean, google doesn't have the greatest track record.
Also, why does that site's scroll behavior is so weird? Just use the browser's default for Ford's sake!
uejfiweun
Theory: the naming of this product is strategic. Google's goal is to push something else above "Google antitrust" in the autocomplete.
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BiteCode_dev
Looks great, won't touch since they are probably going
to do a switcheroo or a shutdown as usual.
And of course I would need to look at all the implications of spying, being locked out of google account and absence of support that are google amo. No time for that. Not for them.
wiseowise
What the hell is going on with scrolling on their website?
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gloosx
reads title
Wow was google researching some kind of anti-gravity device behind the curtains for real and then dropped it out of nowhere?
Ah damn, yet another ai-assisted-something. Crap.
vitaflo
A 5 syllable name for a product makes me wonder wtf the marketing team is doing.
bobsomers
Another Google product whose launch will be used to justify somebody's promotion, only to be left for dead only a few months later after said promoted person moves on to something else.
Why would I even bother getting mildly invested in this when the product launch/promotion incentive structure at Google is so well known?
ports543u
Program not needed.
alpharunner
Long live the cursor. RIP.
orliesaurus
Even the launch trailer sucks.
The people at Windsurf who worked on this must be laughing at us driving on their Lambos and Ferraris.
They glued slop together, shipped this and now are in Tahoe drinking Martinis watching the sunset from their private chalets.
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gigatexal
Lame. Still like things like Zed that look a bit like vscode but without all the electron trash.
It’s just google’s attempt at cursor. Nothing to see here.
israrkhan
why it could not be a VS Code extension?
beanjuiceII
probably discontinue it in a few months
0dayman
so it can be dumped 1 year later?
egamirorrim
I get so annoyed when Google launches things like this without Vertex support. Instant no-way from compliance and I'm left sitting on the sidelines.
Razengan
Notice how "Privacy" is not a talking point anywhere on that page.
⌘F only shows 1 result. and 0 in the comments here!!
einpoklum
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.
Too bad they never show these magic AI-Assisted tools being used to fix real-world bugs / implement feature requests in their open source GH repositories.
My experience with GPT and Claude, is that they are fantastic for learning something brand new to me, as a kind of tutor..
But for writing code in some domain I am good in, they are pretty much useless.. I would spend a lot longer struggling to get something that barely functions from them VS writing it myself, and the one I write myself will be terse and maintainable + if it has bugs they will be like obvious ones, not insane ones that a human would never do.
Even just when getting them to write individual functions with very clear and small scopes.
Edit: And a couple minutes later, it is now working. Guess Google is reading HN.
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xyst
yet another Google project heading to the graveyard in 4-5 years. If this AI bubble even lasts that long.
greatgib
Anyone want to bet how long this product will last before being killed?
From looking at the frontpage, my bet is 2 years at most.
dboon
It’s…a VSCode fork? Really? What has become of Google? Ten years ago, when I was getting into the world of software, there was still an aura about them. They built everything in this huge monorepo, and it worked. They were this deeply technical company for whom it seems anything could be done.
And now they can’t even ship a desktop app without forking VSCode? Look, I get it. There’s this huge ecosystem. Everyone uses it. I’m not saying it’s damning or even bad to fork it.
But why is this being painted as something revolutionary? It’s a reskin of all the other tools which are variations on the same theme, dressed up in business speak (an agent-first UX!). I’m sure it’s OK. I downloaded it. The default Tokyo Night theme is unusable; the contrast can’t be read. I picked Vim bindings, but as soon as I tried to edit a file I noticed that was ignored.
What happened? Is this how these beautiful, innovative companies are bound to end up?
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alexfromapex
Do any white people still work at Google or has DEI gone so far that being white means you can't be in their marketing videos anymore?
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.
Anyway, I figured it was the only way to use gemini 3 so I got started. A fast model that doesn't look for much context. Could be a preprompt issue. But you have to prod it do stuff - no ambition and a kinda offputting atitude like 2.5.
But hey - a smarter, less context rich Cursor composer model. And that's a complement because the latest composer is a hidden gem. Gemini has potential.
So I start using it for my project and after about 20 mins - oh, no. Out of credits.
What can I do? Is there a buy a plan button? No? Just use a different model?
What's the strategy here? If I am into your IDE and your LLM, how do I actually use it? I can't pay for it and it has 20 minutes of use.
I switched back to cursor. And you know? it had gemini 3 pro. Likely a less hobbled version. Day one. Seems like a mistake in the eyes of the big evil companies but I'll take it.
Real developers want to pay real money for real useful things.
Google needs to not set themselves up for failure with every product release.
If you release a product, let those who actually want to use it have a path to do so.
I went ahead and downloaded it, it looks to be a VSCode fork very similar to Cursor, with support for the following models:
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 leagues ahead of Github Copilot's.
Antigravity is a VSCode fork that adds both Google's own tab complete and an agent composer, similar to products like https://conductor.build/. Assuming that Google doesn't shoot themselves in the foot (which they seem to like doing), we'll see if wrappers like Cursor / Windsurf / Cognition can compete against the big labs. It's worth noting that the category seems to be blurring, since Cursor has trained not only their own tab complete model but also their own agent model.
"Congratulations, you have been elevated to manager to agents."
That's not exactly really where I hoped my career would lead. It's like managing junior developers, but without having nice people to work with.
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
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?
On the pricing page it says that for public preview they are offering a free individual plan with "generous rate limits". I gave it an HTML file and asked it to create Jinja templates from it and 2 minutes later (still planning, no additional prompt) I got this:
> Model quota limit exceeded. You have reached the quota limit for this model.
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...
> Spin up agents to tackle routine tasks that take you out of your flow, such as codebase research, bug fixes, and backlog tasks.
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!
It's fascinating to me how far they de-emphasize product screenshots on the website, even in the video on it. And the pricing page is all but blank.
Really reflects how companies are prioritizing hype and adoption over product quality.
(now off to download it...)
> Neither engenders user trust in the work that the agent undertook. Antigravity provides context on agentic work at a more natural task-level abstraction, with the necessary and sufficient set of artifacts and verification results, for the user to gain that trust.
I'm going to need an AI summary of this page to even start comprehending this... It doesn't help that the scrolling makes me nauseous, just like real anti-gravity probably would.
Does anyone notice that this story has had almost the same number of points and comments for 24 hours?
I wanted to like it as a Gemini Pro subscriber who does not want to also pay for Claude Code, but after running Antigravity for ~ 10 minutes, and a few back and forward exchanges I got the 'Model quota limit exceeded' message with no indication when it will reset. You get the impression that these products from Google (including Gemini CLI ) are just made as prototypes -- they are supposed to work as a demo, but Google does not actually care about having a working workflow with them. Claude Code on the other hand is an actual product that works well.
My heart really sinks every time someone launches a "new IDE" and it turns out to be VS Code. VSCode can be turned into an IDE for _some_ platforms. But not for others. It remains a text editor with some nice extras (syntax highlighting, navigation) but lacking others (debugger, testing, ...).
What's most astonishing is that I can't seem to find what actual platforms it works for. I don't doubt the LLM's can write code in almost any language and for almost all frameworks, with varying success.
But which languages/platforms/framework will the IDE work for technically, having compilers etc built in? I don't care if an LLM can help me with the code, if I then can't compile it within the same IDE!
They have a "full stack" use case here, which doesn't even suggest what this stack consists of? https://antigravity.google/use-cases/fullstack
Am I going crazy or are they just handwaving the _actual_ development tasks in all this?
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 combine raw tooling themselves.
> Your new focus is architecting the solution, not implementing every single step. So congratulations, you have been elevated to a manager of agents.
I'm not sure many engineers will welcome this "promotion".
- A new "AI" IDE announced
- It's VS Code
Like clockwork!
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 did.
Quoting their own video:
> You can verify your code quality at a glance, then ship with absolute confidence.
Proclaiming absolute confidence after a glance leaves me with scant confident in the merit of the confidence.
Why is scrolling modified on this page? I how to disable it?
I just have zero faith in Google. How long until we hear that someone mysteriously got banned by Google (as we see on HN every few months? it feels like it anyway) and hear about how now they have no AI tooling etc etc etc because its all married to their Google Account.
Additionally... Google Code was shut down in 2016? I have zero confidence in such a user hostile company. They gave you a Linux phone, they extended it, and made it proprietary. They gave you a good email account, extended it and made it proprietary. They took away office software from you via Google Docs, so now you don't even own the software they do.
No thanks.
So this is Google's version of Windsurf's Wave 10 before the whole team got poached? https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-10-browser
Trying to understand how this is anything net new in the space.
I actually like the workflow they are suggesting. There's something there for sure:
- 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"
> Bajillions of dollars invested in the development of some of the most powerful computational artifacts to date.
> 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.
Product leaders that apply world-changing technology breakthrough names to their yet-another cloned SaaS product deserve more shame.
Antigravity would be a world-changing technology. This isn't.
I recognize the guys in the video, they were in marketing videos for the Windsurf IDE before its founding team was cannibalized by/absorbed into Google.
This is a vibe-coded VSCode fork. In a simple task, I got overload/quota exceeded errors with horrible error handling. lol
Just from the name, I thought this was going to be Google's official take on the classic "Google Gravity" site from ages ago: https://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google-gravity...
I used to love leaving that site open on public PCs and watching the reactions that resulted :)
""Autonomously, an Antigravity Agent writes code for a new frontend feature, uses the terminal to launch localhost, and actuates the browser to test that the new feature works."
very interesting times; i'm glad to see browser automation becoming more mainstream as part of the ai-assisted dev loop for testing. (disclosure: started the selenium project, now working on something similar for a vibe coding context)
> Cross-surface Agents
Nice that it's built-in, Claude Code needs an MCP for this at least.
> User Feedback: Intuitively integrate feedback across surfaces and artifacts to guide and refine the agent’s work.
I wish they'd just let me edit the implementation plan directly instead of me having to explain the corrections. Claude Code has the same weakness. Explaining the corrections is slower than editing the plan manually, and it still keeps the incorrect text in context as well.
> An Agent-First Experience: Manage multiple agents at the same time
Sounds nice in theory but I assume you can run multiple agents for 5 minutes or so and then you're out of credits.
As a claude code user I'm not really sold on this product.
Google subscriptions and services are so terribly mismanaged that I will be staying away, no matter how incredible this shallow fork of vscode may be.
I remember a previous story months ago about Gemini that had Google PMs trying to hype their product, but it was all question about how nobody knows how to get Gemini API keys with any number of paid subscription.
On top of that how long until it’s https://killedbygoogle.com/ ?
I really don't know why I struggle so much with this stuff. I believe these models / agents / whatever write code that is often at least as good as the code I write, and they are super helpful tools, but it just feels like it takes away so much of the joy that is programming to me. I'm not saying it's "right" of me to feel this way, but for me the struggle, and the figuring things out by testing, identifying patterns, or looking deeper into a library's implementation (etc) is part of the challenge that makes programming and software construction fun.
Petty nitpick, but this sentence doesn’t sound right
> “Google Antigravity's Editor view offers tab autocompletion, natural language code commands, and a configurable, and context-aware configurable agent.”
Is it a typo or was there a reason to add configurable twice?
heads up: it installs a persistent background process that silently squats on the default kafka client port (9092) at startup
> Google Antigravity is an agentic development platform, evolving the IDE into the agent-first era.
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/
This is the fruit of Windsurf brain-drain and I think it might be better than what's out there since those guys got to start from scratch from everything they learned building Windsurf
It's insane to me that I can't pay $20/$200 bucks after running out of limits in ~5 messages.
Why would you not at least link it to the pro and ultra accounts
at least you could upsell the pro subs to ultra. Millions of claude code and codex users who are into agentic coding is your servicable market paying attention today.
Now I'll delete antigravity and go back to codex / claude code / cursor ...
Haven't we got enough of new eras yet?
<snark>
Pressing the "Submit" button on their "Google Antigravity for Organizations Interest Form" (https://antigravity.google/interest-form) doesn't actually do anything for me (tried Firefox and Chrome) -> their metrics will indicate that there's no interest from organizations -> the product will be killed in a year.
</snark>
See the videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX-OpeNZYI4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKQ9b4UMpGQ
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967787
I spent a few days with Firebase Studio when it was announced. I stopped using it because it was clearly a very early alpha - tons of bugs, and didn't seem well thought out. Now, less than a few months later (!!!), they announce a competing IDE with essentially the same functionality, but a different brand? Is the right hand talking to the left?
MacOS/Safari User here. Stuck on 'Setting Up Your Account' once I've authorized it in the browser. /shrug
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
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?
I was very hyped: maybe Google finally did something new, complete, unifying CLI and IDE, a sort of Claude Code Web but as an efficient, IDE-like, local thing.
Then I installed it and it was a VSCode fork.
Nice, if I switch now it'll be killed in two to three years right around the time Zed has all the features that I want!
Was expecting https://pypi.org/project/antigravity/
After the first five minutes of using it on Ubuntu, it crashed with error saying I don't have enough free memory, quick look into system stats proved that wasn't the case.
Anyway, not a great first impression. I guess I'll try again in a few months.
I have lamented the fact that download buttons can be hard to find on software home pages sometimes. But having just a download button and a "more" button on your landing page seems to be taking things a bit too far.
Tangential I know but what a clumsy sounding name
If I use this does it mean Google has access to all my code and it may popup as"AI generated" in someone else's code?
Just sits on "Setting Up Your Account" pane and does nothing :)
Can't wait for my IDE to get sunset on me with no recourse. Thanks google, but I'll pass.
How long until they discontinue it?
Tested it for roughly two hours now, far from ready for prime time, very buggy and clearly just quickly build on Windsurfs already rather issue laden code base. Essentially a less well thought out imitation of Trae's Solo mode, added in a second window on top of VSCode and not very well integrated, struggling with terminal commands and despite showing issues in the browser window and screenshot taken by the model, proclaiming the task to be completed. Tool calls also aren't as reliable as I would have expected considering their ownership of the code base, hard to tell whether that is underlying in the model (it was a major issue with 2.5 Pro) or simply Antigravity specific, hoping the latter.
Additionally, there are issues setting up accounts (Singapore VPN solved that for me), no support for Workspace users, only a free tier that requires data sharing, no additional rate limits for paying Pro or Ultra customers, etc. Even worse, Gemini CLI currently does NOT provide Gemini 3 Pro for Ultra Business customers despite paying over € 260,- per month, which is frankly ridiculous.
Will be honest, I was speculating that the reason for the multi month delay between the first A/B tests of Gemini 3 class models and the final release was so they'd have all their dugs in a row. Have some time to test everything, improve tooling, provide new paid subscriptions and/or ensure existing ones get access to everything day one, but they didn't.
Gemini 3 Pro seems very interesting (to early to say), but compared to every other recent launch by OpenAI (5, 5.1, Codex variants), Anthropic (Sonnet and Haiku 4.5), even Kimi (K2 Thinking) and Z.AI (GLM-4.6), this is by far the least organized launch of any frontier lab.
A buggy IDE which is unusable for paying customers, no CLI access for Ultra business (and none at all for Pro of any kind), etc. is frankly embarrassing when considering what competitors manage to provide the day a model launches.
What have they been working on these last two months besides going on X and posting "3" every couple of days? Why is there no paid Antigravity tier, no way to use Workspace accounts, etc? Before launching in this state, I feel it'd have been better to delay a bit more if it was absolutely needed.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the fourth or fifth IDE built by Google for LLM assisted coding? What happened to IDX and Firebase Studio and aren't they also based on VSCode?
I can't get the agent to use my MCP server. The MCP config is provided, and the application can query the tools, but the agent can't access my server, only the http operations the application performs to list the tools is something i see in my server logs. It knows there are tools, because it sees the list, it tells me when it's trying to connect to which tool. But that fails.
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!
We have a real, serious problem when even Google (presumably with a large share of the world's engineering might) is just forking VSCode.
I tried it. Maybe I got unlucky, but Gemini performed poorly in my testing. I gave it a task that I was working on with VSCode and GPT codex 5.1. Gemini3 repeatedly failed to finish the task and started to go down a rabbit hole on an unrelated task.
The browser extension is really cool and it provides a needed tool for the agent to use. It used the extension to show the page that it updated in the task document (the task doc is great too). However it showed me a page and did it was done, when it was clearly not done and not what I asked for.
I was expecting weaker tooling and a better model. I got good tooling and a not very good model.
Maybe 3.1 will deliver?
Oh no. What's with the scrolling in the blog page. What a terrible experience. It's clearly vibe-coded and AI-tested. If a senior saw mingling with the scrolling behavior, it would have been never in production.
Seems interesting, makes for the second vscode clone with ai google has made. The demo they showed in the video avoided showing code so I guess thats what they're aiming for. Although when they mentioned you can easily verify code quality by looking at end product screenshots it felt like they don't know what 'code' quality means.
On my m2 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM, it took over 12 minutes to startup and get to a usable state. When it did, it was plainly just a jacked version of VSCode. Opening a project caused it to hang again. Dumped it. VSCodium, with the terminal pane open so I can talk to Claude works fine for me...
Curious if the name is a reference to https://xkcd.com/353/
> Come join us! Programming is fun again! It's a whole new world up here!
The name sounds like it is not going to stick around for long.
The amount of New Eras stuffed into New Eras is too damn high!
It's a shame not even mention the amazing work of VSCode.
Is this what they recruited the windsurf team for a billion for?
Slightly off-topic, but I really hate this trend that now every developer / researcher / engineer also needs to be an actor (typically cringy one) pretending to be quirky for the camera while trying to act unnaturally excited about the technology.
I really miss the days of the professional casualness and naturalness of something like the "mother of all demos" [0]. Like, can you imagine the guy wearing a turtleneck and going, "but wait!" and acting surprised after every sentence? It would NOT have been the same demo.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
I was genuinely impressed by the Antigravity browser plugin for "agentic" work.
I ran into a neat website and asked it to generate a similiar UX with Astro and it did a decent-ish job of seeing how the site handled scrolling visually and in code and replicating it in a tidy repo.
I was never really a fan of Cursor. I'll use this if it's free and eventually gets generous free quotas.
Small feedback if any of the Antigravity people read here: "Fast" is not a great name for the "eager" option (vs. "Planning") because "Fast" is associated with "dumb" in LLMs (fast/flash/mini). Probably "Eager" would be a more descriptive name
I don’t really understand, if replacing developers is right around the corner, why throw money into so many IDEs. Or perhaps it’s really cheap to produce something like this?
I cannot see any difference than VS Code with a theme...
They even packaged it for Linux.
It is my understanding that no experienced programmer would even consider touching that stuff given Google's stellar track record in developers' satisfaction.
I believe it is aimed at investors. Thus it will be forgotten the minute it stops influencing stock price.
Thus there is no need to take it literally as a developer tool - it's not.
Apparently there are only three kinds of developers according to Google, and enterprise developers code mainly Next.js.
"You know what I want? More Google inside my tools."
—No one, ever.
can't get past the "Setting up your account" step atm
> we added pieces that evolved the IDE towards an agent first future such as ... an additional novel agent-first form factor
"Novel agent-first form factor" feels very buzz-wordy. Does it refer to an actual feature?
I installed it, entered one prompt, clicked the "Proceed" button, and got "Model quota limit exceeded."
Those quota limits brought me back down to earth quickly.
Vibe coding has taken a way to where its become psychological, and these days all I work with is just a "fast apt" solution like Cursor's Composer 1, I tried Gemini 3 inside Cursor, and while I had no real application to a real stratified properly to benchmark it with, it felt "already slow" in a very fast race.
I keep getting: "Antigravity server crashed unexpectedly. Please restart to fully restore AI features." On Ubuntu 24.04 - others on reddit reporting the same with 24.04.
So the whole world is a scam for your data now basically.
So a VS Code fork. At this time, when VS Code is better than ever and ever improving. I think imma pass.
Until they stop supporting it and rug builders using it in typical Google fashion
Trip report: I'm using it now to revamp a dashboard I'm working on. TBH it's not feeling much better than Codex - it couldn't figure out how to launch chrome with my default profile nor how to regenerate the css with tailwind. I'm also getting a lot of model quota errors like everyone else.
the agent keeps giving me errors. no thanks.
It's a hard sell for Cursor users using Gemini 3 to switchover to AntiGravity. There's nothing innovative they have introduced for me to switch IDEs.
Why is google so bad at product branding and strategy? My complaint is aesthetic: why would you name your product a five-syllable word??
Anyone else getting this error: "Agent execution terminated due to model provider overload. Please try again later."
0$/month. Wow, someone is really pushing for widespread adoption.
I'm stuck on "setting up this account" like most people. What a botched launch. This kind of bugginess and unreliability has become so much more frequent since big tech started tightening the screws with mass layoffs.
I enjoyed Theo’s take on this https://youtube.com/watch?v=8dTN4PBD2rg
But honestly Google software seems so buggy. The management class took over there a long ago and are quietly ruining the company.
the funny things is that you can use all the models but you cant switch the browser
Read the title, got excited. Read the page.. ah well, guess we'll have to wait another while for FTL travel.
And for the first time since I have this MacBook Pro (M2 2023) I heard and felt the fans. I was wondering if they were imaginary.
Maybe they should have used an ai to code an ide without all these glitches
>>Google Antigravity's Editor view offers tab autocompletion, natural language code commands, and a configurable, and context-aware configurable agent.
Okay, but is it configurable? Also, can you configure it to write DRY code?
I clicked around for ~30 seconds and I have no idea what this is. Great job, Google marketing
Looks to be live but no content; OpenGraph description is "Google Antigravity - Build the new way".
This thing crashes on Ubuntu LTS 24.04 during start. Apparently all these agents are not able to ensure that a desktop app starts on a popular Linux distribution.
If Google has forgotten how to do Software, than the future doesn't look bright.
That floating chess board was a subliminal message: Your project will teeter, and critical pieces will fall off. You will occasionally make an illegal move as the board annoyingly shifts beneath you.
The odds of me using a Google IDE are the same as me logging into my Google+ account to connect with friends.
Tried Antigravity for 2 queries and my model quota limit breached. Model definitely felt better than GPT 5.1 (my current daily driver). I am continuing to use Gemini 3 Pro on Cursor to evaluate further.
Landing page instantly spun up the fan on my laptop. The animation was about 3fps.
I enjoy that the post-login confirmation page (https://antigravity.google/auth-success) still says "Docs | Twitter"
I don't get how these agents can work when even Claude Sonnet 4.5 (for example) needs a lot of hand-holding for basic, simple bugfixing stuff. Wouldn't the agents just be huffing and puffing their way off the rails all the time?
I couldn't get it to work on M1 mac. it spins forever on login screen.
Man does this thing spam new windows... why spawn new window instead of panels in a single instance?
I have to close 4+ after just a few minutes of poking around
Did they build this site with Antigravity because it sure is broken on my iPad.
Just throw it onto the pile, I guess
Did any of these VS Code forks yet fix their issues from official marketplace access leading to extensions being severely outdated and ripe with security issues?
In my first test of it, it's pretty bad. Guess I'm sticking to codex.
Well, I can't even use it at all, it's just stuck on the 'Setting Up Your Account' step forever. That's a pretty sad product launch lol.
I downloaded Antigravity this morning and was able get this Mobius Clock debugged in a few minutes - then for the heck of it added a whole list of features! I'm blown away by how fast you can work. Yes, there were a series of problems, as expected whenever you attempt hard stuff, but at the end of the day, do check out the improved mobius clock!!! https://www.mobiusclock.com
Gemini, create an RSS feed for https://antigravity.google/blog
Not sure what this gives me over Copilot in VSCode that has access to OpenAI, Claude, Grok, Gemini, and Raptor(?) models.
I assume that Copilot will have this model soon...
When it starts it prints: Using Cloud Code URL: https://daily-cloudcode-pa.sandbox.googleapis.com
I'm not switching from Claude code. It did the job but didn't do it as good as Claude Code with the details and context.
you would need to be bonkers to trust Google at the intersection of 1. vibe coding, 2. supporting developers, and 3. a product that's not selling ads
The problem with this whole product category is that vcs cannot track what was actually the source input and what was generated.
If I write "float exp(float base, float exp){"
Then that is the source code and the rest is generated. Mixing it all up is as dumb as uploading a compiled binary or bytecode to git.
Especially annoying when you are working with other people and you can't tell what they actually wrote and know about.
I don't want to hate on this but I remember last week, when as a backend developer doing frontend, I spent about 20 minutes prompting Claude Sonnet in a loop trying to build a landing page for a new feature.
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.
I probably wouldn't have been drawn to coding if I was young these days based on the same motivations that led me to venture into it as a teen.
I tried it and ran out of credits during the first prompt. No visible way to upgrade or purchase.
Anyone else stuck on 'setting up your account'?
Even if this is good, I'll never know because I'm not investing time into something that will be canceled in one year.
Nice that you can use non-Gemini models with it
I've clocked out on agentic AI IDEs. Not installing anymore until I hit an obvious wall with my current ones.
Interesting concept! Curious to see how Google Antigravity works and what practical applications it might have.
I know it is not place to seek help but anyone else stuck while trying changing google accounts ?
Are they explicitly excluding OpenAI in their IDE? (gpt-oss running on Google cloud doesn't count)
Is it safe to use these types of AI enhanced editors with files that contain sensitive information?
Meanwhile I don't feel like the era of AI assisted software development has even started.
Can someone inside comment if this is this a cider fork or a new branch off vscode?
I wonder how long they're gonna keep this around before they pull the plug.
I downloaded it, but I was not even able to get past `Account Set Up`. :(
Okay, maybe I'm stupid, but the demo video included pasting and API key into the chat window.
That seems bad.
This could have been a plugin.
As if this was something one could trust it won't be shut down 3 years from now...
No thanks...
Not interested in trying something that will be killed shortly.
It's impossible to use it, stuck in the loading screen forever
Seems like they are trying to attack both Cursor and Lovable at the same time...nice !
There's no way I am using such an important piece of life as an IDE from Google just because I know they are going to kill it within 3 years, if it survives that much. Probably will die with the Windsurf guy jumping ship again.
No ... no, thank you. Keep your AI away from me and my stuff.
I just feel second-hand embarrassment when seeing these kind of posts.
so this is what Google was doing with their 2.5B Windsurf acquisition...
Something felt really "artificial" about that youtube video.
I wonder how many meetings where necessary to come up with that name
I cannot stand webpages that hijack scrolling like that.
Anyone got stuck on the "Setting Up Your Account" page ?
It's really kind of pathetic how we live in a future where "antigravity" is a text editor that lies to you, "hoverboards" are one-wheeled electric skateboards that burn your house down, and... well, can't think of a third thing at the moment, but you know the vibe.
Lotta people mining science fiction for cool names and then applying them to their crappy products, cheapening the source ideas.
It's 2025 and a code editor is now 600MB.
Really hope the quality of the IDE is better than the website...
What's an "enterprise developer"? Is that what normal people call a "backend developer"?
So deceptive name. It has nothing to do with gravity.
I've seen "agent" and "agentic" so many times in the last few months that the usage of the term is quickly becoming one of my biggest pet peeves. The previous one was "enshittification", and I'm glad that one was a short-lived fad.
Nice to see that it's not locked to just Gemini models
That's a big name for a slop fork. So many possibilities (with LLMs and without) but Google just can't bring themselves to do anything creative, let alone transformative.
New Era. A New - think about it for a sec - Era.
This looks like an experimental IDE, which is fine. The whole AI bubble is an experiment. It will burst and that's OK as well.
Google AI products are the new chat product
I worked in a factory one summer when I was a teenager. It was a totally brain dead work, but the morale was good. The workers weren't unhappy.
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.
why isn't antigravity finishing the setup on my mac? it's been more than half an hour.
dupe https://antigravity.google/
weird name. abbreviating it to GAG isn't much better.
What I don't get is why they didn't fork emacs, then build a VScode mode and then add AI to that.
I guess it must have been the GPL which isn’t compatible with their AI agents.
Oh, wait I was meant to take this announcement seriously?
On Windows, it behaves like a malware. Suddenly flashing command prompt windows when you interact with it. Not very nice (also, lazy, since you don't need to do that flashing if you're a legitimate app).
what's the value prop over cursor
Vim mode isn't working, oh no!
Why is this not a VS Code Extension?
Neat, but the world doesn't need another IDE, and people want choice. Provide tools that plug into open workflows and step back.
Oh lucky, another free AI beta.
I'm going to treat this like Kiro, and just use it until they start charging for it and then probably switch back to VS code with its built-in agent support.
Eventually they're going to do a rug pull, and instead of paying $10 a month for tons of AI code request, it's going to be two or $300 for that. The economics just aren't there to actually make a profit, hopefully before the rug pool happens local models on normal hardware will be fast enough.
Nobody is interested in proprietary editors. People only accepted vscode because most of it was open source. AIUI this is a fork of that, but seriously, push out the changes or pass.
Finally! Affordable antigravity!
How long until it's killed?
I mean, google doesn't have the greatest track record.
Also, why does that site's scroll behavior is so weird? Just use the browser's default for Ford's sake!
Theory: the naming of this product is strategic. Google's goal is to push something else above "Google antitrust" in the autocomplete.
Looks great, won't touch since they are probably going to do a switcheroo or a shutdown as usual.
And of course I would need to look at all the implications of spying, being locked out of google account and absence of support that are google amo. No time for that. Not for them.
What the hell is going on with scrolling on their website?
reads title
Wow was google researching some kind of anti-gravity device behind the curtains for real and then dropped it out of nowhere?
Ah damn, yet another ai-assisted-something. Crap.
A 5 syllable name for a product makes me wonder wtf the marketing team is doing.
Another Google product whose launch will be used to justify somebody's promotion, only to be left for dead only a few months later after said promoted person moves on to something else.
Why would I even bother getting mildly invested in this when the product launch/promotion incentive structure at Google is so well known?
Program not needed.
Long live the cursor. RIP.
Even the launch trailer sucks.
The people at Windsurf who worked on this must be laughing at us driving on their Lambos and Ferraris.
They glued slop together, shipped this and now are in Tahoe drinking Martinis watching the sunset from their private chalets.
Lame. Still like things like Zed that look a bit like vscode but without all the electron trash.
It’s just google’s attempt at cursor. Nothing to see here.
why it could not be a VS Code extension?
probably discontinue it in a few months
so it can be dumped 1 year later?
I get so annoyed when Google launches things like this without Vertex support. Instant no-way from compliance and I'm left sitting on the sidelines.
Notice how "Privacy" is not a talking point anywhere on that page.
⌘F only shows 1 result. and 0 in the comments here!!
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.
Nice ide, can I disable the AI?
Can we mark this as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968065
Too bad they never show these magic AI-Assisted tools being used to fix real-world bugs / implement feature requests in their open source GH repositories.
What about a demo that shows how this can be used to fix for example https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/24792?
My experience with GPT and Claude, is that they are fantastic for learning something brand new to me, as a kind of tutor..
But for writing code in some domain I am good in, they are pretty much useless.. I would spend a lot longer struggling to get something that barely functions from them VS writing it myself, and the one I write myself will be terse and maintainable + if it has bugs they will be like obvious ones, not insane ones that a human would never do.
Even just when getting them to write individual functions with very clear and small scopes.
Blog post: https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravi...
Nice demo, but they didn't say the most important thing - how much did Gemini API calls in that demo really cost? How much tokens were consumed?
I know there's a "free plan with generous rate limits" but it's obvious that they're losing money there.
Loads a blank white page and breaks the back button in Firefox.
Console error:
> Loading module from “https://antigravity.google/main-74LQFSAF.js” was blocked because of a disallowed MIME type (“text/html”).
cool, more chromium/electron slop.
Another VS code fork?
A tiny part of me was disappointed to find something other than a product involving actual antigravity.
Meanwhile I'm still on my trusty vim and letting the AI do work separately in another CLI.
I've been burned enough by Google Graveyard experiences that this is a hard pass.
Another google product, there are too many and which ones will be around in a year or two?
I've been burned by Google Graveyard enough that this is a hard pass from me.
I mean ok, another VSCode fork, but am I the only one seeing the .google TLD?
Any reason why this isn't just an extension instead of another fork?
Oh no. Not another VSCode fork…
Am I the only one stuck in the "Setting Up Your Account" loading screen?
Oh cool another ide for programming... aaaand its a vscode fork.
I dont know what i expected tbh
yawn.
opencode with it's superior feature set and ability to use any model provider i want is....
superior
why would you even bother with google at this point?
Oh look, another piece of shit AI slop I won't use. Next!
From what i saw its yet an AI first text editor. Thats a hard pass for me.
well, I'm not even willing to try it because of whatever retarded thing they did with the page scroll
Another VSCode fork! This is getting ridiculous.
”We must also do Loveable”
great, now everybody can vibe code even harder.
Wow this page is an endless source of memes and broken UX madness
Google at its finest
and the difference from vscode is...?
Wake me up when there's an IDE that cares about performance. My coworkers are amazed my laptop can run for days because I don't use Electron crap.
“agentic” is the new “ai”, which was the new “web3”, which was the new “5G”, which was the new “4G”, which was the new “HDR”, which was the new “HD”…
I don't get it. It's a completely blank web page. Did they not test in firefox?
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.
yet another Google project heading to the graveyard in 4-5 years. If this AI bubble even lasts that long.
Anyone want to bet how long this product will last before being killed? From looking at the frontpage, my bet is 2 years at most.
It’s…a VSCode fork? Really? What has become of Google? Ten years ago, when I was getting into the world of software, there was still an aura about them. They built everything in this huge monorepo, and it worked. They were this deeply technical company for whom it seems anything could be done.
And now they can’t even ship a desktop app without forking VSCode? Look, I get it. There’s this huge ecosystem. Everyone uses it. I’m not saying it’s damning or even bad to fork it.
But why is this being painted as something revolutionary? It’s a reskin of all the other tools which are variations on the same theme, dressed up in business speak (an agent-first UX!). I’m sure it’s OK. I downloaded it. The default Tokyo Night theme is unusable; the contrast can’t be read. I picked Vim bindings, but as soon as I tried to edit a file I noticed that was ignored.
What happened? Is this how these beautiful, innovative companies are bound to end up?
Do any white people still work at Google or has DEI gone so far that being white means you can't be in their marketing videos anymore?