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Regulars are buzzing about Google's mysterious "Antigravity" page, sparking a frenzy of speculation about the tech giant's next big move. As commenters riff on the cryptic blog post and YouTube video, some are convinced it's a clever April Fools' prank, while others are digging in for a more profound revelation. The thread is abuzz with theories, ranging from a genuine breakthrough in physics to a marketing stunt or even a cleverly veiled recruitment tool. As the debate rages on, one thing is clear: Google has piqued the curiosity of the tech community, and everyone wants in on the conversation.
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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 is a product launched in the hype cycle of AI. Google has plenty of other products (launched during hype cycles) that are gathering dust.
That's not a guaranteed signal that it will meet the same fate but its something strong enough to be wary of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX-OpeNZYI4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKQ9b4UMpGQ
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967787
- 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)
AI Agent Orchestration Battle Bots. Old school VMs are the brute tanks just slowly ramming everybody off the field. A swarm of erratically behaving lightweight K8s Pods madly slicing and dicing everything coming on their way. Winner takes control of the host capacity.
I might need this in my life.
Presumably that hasn't changed much. If you want to do any large-scale edits of the UI you need to spin up a fork.
You mean Chromium wrapper?
Weirdly, out of all the vscode forks the best UI is probably bytedance's TRAE
> 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"
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
The problem is that the engineer turning what you want into code isn't normally the bottleneck. I would say about 50% of my job is helping people specify what they want sufficiently for someone to implement.
Non-technical people are used to a world of squishy definition where you can tell someone to do something and they will fill in the blanks and it all works out fine.
The problem with successful software is that the users are going to do all the weird things. All the things the manager didn't think about when they were dreaming up their happy path. They are going to try to update the startTime to the past, or to next year and then back to next week. They are going to get their account into some weird state and click the button you didn't think they could. And this is just the users that are trying to use the site without trying to intentionally break it.
I think if managers try to LLM up their dreams it'll go about as well as low/no-code. They will probably be able to get a bit further because the LLM will be willing to bolt on feature after feature and bug fix after bug fix until they realize they've just been piling up bandaids.
I am cautiously optimistic that there will be a thriving market for skilled engineers to come in and fix these things.
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.
[1] https://xkcd.com/353/
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.
But there is a 13 minute demo video.
https://antigravity.google/product
> 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?
Maybe the questioner is also in full control of the HTML creation and they don’t need a parser for all possible HTML edge cases.
It seems that even the very conceptually simple example given by the questioner is impossible.
Free tier users get to use what's left over from Google's capacity. They pay with their data, Google uses their inputs for training.
Paid tier users pay with money, Google doesn't use their inputs. They get priority when capacity is running out (like right after a launch as happened here).
The don't seem to be getting any rate limiting issue which I don't understand, maybe a bug in Antigravity allowing them to use it for more. They are really confident in the IDE after a few hours and the output given is really good.
It's the same problem with OpenRouter's free tiers for a long time. If something is truly $0 and widely available, people will absolutely bleed it dry.
Google using Electron tells us that quality control is completely out of the window.
Unbelievable.
I wasted a day on trying to get some PNGs to render correctly, but no matter the config I used, the colors came out wrongly oversaturated.
I used Tauri with a WebView, and the app was rendering the images perfectly fine. On top of that the UI looked much better, and I was done in half the time I spend trying to fix the rendering issue in WinUI 3.
Never again will I go native.
... Aren't we talking about a programming IDE here? When did mobile become anything like the primary market for that? Are people expected to sit around for hours inputting symbols with an OSK?
What are all this LLMs for when everything is just fork of electron app? Does not look like good marketing.
Also I'm used to vim and sensitive to lag, so I always hated vscode, but seems a lot of people don't notice or something. And when you're using AI for 90% of the loc, it matters less.
https://antigravity.google/download
They have the revenues to support all of this.
They spent time learning from all the players and can now fast follow into every market. Now they're fast and nimble and are willing to clone other products wholesale, fork VSCode, etc.
They're developing all of this, meanwhile Pichai is calling it a "bubble" to put a chill on funding (read: competition). It's not like Google is slowing down.
We had a chance to break them up with regulation, and we didn't. Now they're going to kill every market participant.
This isn't healthy. We have an invasive species in the ecology eating up all the diverse, healthy species.
a16z and YC must hate this. It puts a cap on their returns.
As engineers, you should certainly hate this. Google does everything it can to push wages down. Layoffs, offshoring, colluding with competitors. Fewer startups mean fewer rewards for innovation capital and more accrual to the conglomerate taxing the entire internet.
Chrome, Android, Search, Ads, YouTube, Cloud, Workspace, Other Bets, and AI/Deepmind need to be split into separate companies.
Call or email your legislators and ask for antitrust enforcement: https://pluralpolicy.com/find-your-legislator/
Demand a Google breakup.
Google has never successfully done that? Maybe once?
Google at its finest
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.
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> Loading module from “https://antigravity.google/main-74LQFSAF.js” was blocked because of a disallowed MIME type (“text/html”).
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