Google Antigravity
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·November 18, 2025craftkiller
jkrems
Looks like it's back again!
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.
riskassessment
> html
Would be willing to bet this is the issue. Adding html files to context for gemini models results in a ton of token use.
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".
AstroBen
I don't think this is speaking to the engineers
elif
Few horse racers became automobile racers.
If existing engineers don't change it doesn't matter because new engineers will take their place.
vosper
Horse racing didn’t go away and there are more people who race horses professionally than who race cars.
bad_haircut72
There are many more truck drivers than buggy drivers
mxkopy
Horses also run faster than pictures of cars
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!
bakies
After a bunch of people leave the company it's already like nobody knows how anything is built. This seems like a good thing to accelerate understanding a codebase.
SR2Z
If you're building something new you'll need some skilled people around
nasretdinov
- A new "AI" IDE announced
- It's VS Code
Like clockwork!
linhns
This is why I have much respect for the Zed team as they are chasing originality, not just slap something onto VS Code and call it a new IDE.
jakebasile
How many forks of VS Code am I supposed to have installed at this point?
zamadatix
You'll need a Chromium based app to count the installs for you.
01HNNWZ0MV43FF
My YC2026 startups are an AI agent that automatically manages your VSCode forks, and a public safety computer vision app for smart glasses that predicts whether someone can afford a lawyer based on their skin color
collingreen
They'll have to compete with these other pending funded companies:
- 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)
msci100
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.
Namahanna
Looks to be. The UI has almost the exactly the same bits, and I even got 'Cascade' references as using it.
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"
dnw
Jules
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.
via: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/google-antigravity/about/
20k
I have absolutely 0 idea why any developer would rely on any IDE produced by google. It'll be canned within 5 years max, with 3-4 seeming like a reasonable estimate of the lifespan of the product
I've been using my current IDE for 17 years, and plan to continue using it for at least another 15
whs
You mean Android Studio will be canned in 2018 max with a reasonable estimate of 2016-2017?
devsda
Isn't Android Studio based on IntelliJ and not a product developed from ground up? And Android Studio has second order revenue from the playstore.
I wouldn't be even surprised if internally the AS team's financials are counted under the Playstore umbrella.
Ygg2
It's made by Jetbrains thankfully.
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.
arrowleaf
Kevin was CTO / head of product engineering at Windsurf, Anshul was a founding engineer
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.
collingreen
There is cool stuff out there! Look beyond the companies with $B valuations and you can find smart, passionate people making neat stuff.
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!
null
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.