{"slug": "antigravity-cli", "name": "Antigravity CLI", "category": "ai-coding", "category_name": "AI coding tools", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 9, "warners": 1, "score": 4.054, "rising": 2.67, "first": "2026-05-20", "latest": "2026-10-01", "why": "Antigravity CLI is quite decent, it's a huge step up from Gemini CLI", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 4, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Antigravity CLI is quite decent, it's a huge step up from Gemini CLI", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Antigravity CLI"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 797687410, "item_id": 49855463, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855463", "by": "parasti", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Once approved the implementation speed is uncanny compared to Claude.", "excerpt": "At work, we use Claude Code with superpowers which organizes most work into planning followed by review followed by implementation and superpowers applies a fairly high level of scrutiny at every step. It's really quite effective, I don't generally read the code that comes out. In that workflow I have never used plan mode. I don't know what I'd use it for. On my hobby projects I use Antigravity CLI and almost always ", "context": "", "use_case": "hobby projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Plan mode is dead"}, {"id": 792456579, "item_id": 49528536, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49528536", "by": "paaloeye", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "start using Google AI Mode + Antigravity CLI / Claude Code sometimes", "excerpt": "First Claude installed 10GB VM [0] without asking, but OpenAI ships LibreOffice. What's next? Somebody ship their monorepo verbatim? Honestly, not sure it's worth having those app on your localhost at all. I ended up uninstalling all frontier labs bloated apps and start using Google AI Mode + Antigravity CLI / Claude Code sometimes. 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For prototyping the web interface is OK, but I don't", "context": "lives in the terminal", "use_case": "terminal coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek Harness official website launched"}, {"id": 777721984, "item_id": 48607624, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48607624", "by": "bjackman", "date": "2026-06-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Antigravity CLI is quite decent, it's a huge step up from Gemini CLI", "excerpt": "This is weird coz as a user of both Gemini and Claude I have the opposite feeling. Antigravity CLI is quite decent, it's a huge step up from Gemini CLI (like, for example, it actually fucking works) and has some genuine advantages over Claude Code. Does Codex have something over both of them? I haven't tried it. But the model just fucking sucks. Before I switched to Claude for personal stuff a few weeks ago, I was li", "context": "user of both Gemini and Claude", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "John Jumper leaves Google to join Anthropic"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 771414369, "item_id": 48213398, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213398", "by": "almog", "date": "2026-05-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I managed to finish my weekly quota.", "excerpt": "Earlier this month I switched from Claude Code to Codex and wanted to try Gemini CLI as well. It felt far behind both CC and Codex but I wanted to give it another chance with the new Antigravity CLI. What can I say, it did surprise me and not in a good way in but two short sessions that included just two prompts (trying to reverse engineer some earbuds OTA firmware) using Gemini Flash 3.5, I managed to finish my week", "context": "", "use_case": "reverse engineering firmware", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"}]}], "who": [{"by": "SomeHacker44", "context": "Arch Linux desktop system administrator", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350260", "date": "2026-08-18"}, {"by": "brhenc", "context": "lives in the terminal", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296556", "date": "2026-08-14"}, {"by": "bjackman", "context": "user of both Gemini and Claude", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48607624", "date": "2026-06-20"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["work tasks", "hobby projects", "coding", "cli coding agent", "running gemini", "linux system administration"], "compared": [{"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 5, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "codex", "name": "Codex", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "gemini-cli", "name": "Gemini CLI", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "gemini", "name": "Gemini", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348751", "title": "Claude Code weekly limits reduce by a third tomorrow", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913571", "title": "Gemini 4 Argon", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840054", "title": "Plan mode is dead", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396", "title": "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450353", "title": "GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285631", "title": "DeepSeek Harness official website launched", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"warn": 1}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 2}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 798848417, "item_id": 49928026, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928026", "by": "wmedrano", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I only used it at work for work with Antigravity CLI", "excerpt": "The model (at least on the settings I used) was not for interactive chatting. It was for longer running tasks. Edit: my view is probably tainted by the fact that I only used it at work for work with Antigravity CLI", "context": "", "use_case": "work tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}, {"id": 797687410, "item_id": 49855463, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855463", "by": "parasti", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Once approved the implementation speed is uncanny compared to Claude.", "excerpt": "At work, we use Claude Code with superpowers which organizes most work into planning followed by review followed by implementation and superpowers applies a fairly high level of scrutiny at every step. It's really quite effective, I don't generally read the code that comes out. In that workflow I have never used plan mode. I don't know what I'd use it for. On my hobby projects I use Antigravity CLI and almost always ", "context": "", "use_case": "hobby projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Plan mode is dead"}, {"id": 792456579, "item_id": 49528536, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49528536", "by": "paaloeye", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "start using Google AI Mode + Antigravity CLI / Claude Code sometimes", "excerpt": "First Claude installed 10GB VM [0] without asking, but OpenAI ships LibreOffice. What's next? Somebody ship their monorepo verbatim? Honestly, not sure it's worth having those app on your localhost at all. I ended up uninstalling all frontier labs bloated apps and start using Google AI Mode + Antigravity CLI / Claude Code sometimes. 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There are other models available but I haven't tried them.", "context": "", "use_case": "CLI coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code weekly limits reduce by a third tomorrow"}, {"id": 791292818, "item_id": 49455801, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455801", "by": "smartbit", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I accept the hassle of working with Antigravity CLI", "excerpt": "Looking at these numbers IMHO, with Gemini you get the speed what you pay for. Intel Cost lig per ence Task Speed Gemini 3.7 flash 56 0.40 338 GLM 5.3 flash 57 0.09 49 Factor 1 4.4 6.9 I have both GLM & Gemini in a subscription and see no reason for choosing GLM 5.3 Flash. Working with de speed of Gemini 3.7 Flash is such a delight that I accept the hassle of working with Antigravity CLI, coming from Claude Code whic", "context": "", "use_case": "running Gemini", "switched_from": "Claude Code", "story": "GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"}, {"id": 789604161, "item_id": 49350260, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350260", "by": "SomeHacker44", "date": "2026-08-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Claude and Antigravity CLI as an (Arch) Linux desktop system administrator a lot lately.", "excerpt": "I use Claude and Antigravity CLI as an (Arch) Linux desktop system administrator a lot lately. Is Codex useful for that too?", "context": "Arch Linux desktop system administrator", "use_case": "Linux system administration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code weekly limits reduce by a third tomorrow"}, {"id": 788744899, "item_id": 49296556, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296556", "by": "brhenc", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "As someone who lives in the terminal the web interface doesn't feel as nice to use as things like aichat, crush, or antigravity-cli.", "excerpt": "Tried it this morning - it works with openrouter, feels a little less verbose than antigravity CLI which should help with cost. I would be happier if it wasn't javascript-based, but it's open source so it should be doable to use the models with things like https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush and optimize a little how these alternatives work with deepseek models. For prototyping the web interface is OK, but I don't", "context": "lives in the terminal", "use_case": "terminal coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek Harness official website launched"}, {"id": 777721984, "item_id": 48607624, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48607624", "by": "bjackman", "date": "2026-06-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Antigravity CLI is quite decent, it's a huge step up from Gemini CLI", "excerpt": "This is weird coz as a user of both Gemini and Claude I have the opposite feeling. Antigravity CLI is quite decent, it's a huge step up from Gemini CLI (like, for example, it actually fucking works) and has some genuine advantages over Claude Code. Does Codex have something over both of them? I haven't tried it. But the model just fucking sucks. Before I switched to Claude for personal stuff a few weeks ago, I was li", "context": "user of both Gemini and Claude", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "John Jumper leaves Google to join Anthropic"}, {"id": 774511888, "item_id": 48406993, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406993", "by": "brianjmingus", "date": "2026-06-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used Antigravity CLI with gemini-3.1-pro-preview.", "excerpt": "It's roughly the state of the art. I developed it over the last day. I used Antigravity CLI with gemini-3.1-pro-preview.", "context": "", "use_case": "developing the project", "switched_from": "", "story": "Do transformers need three projections? Systematic study of QKV variants"}, {"id": 771414369, "item_id": 48213398, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213398", "by": "almog", "date": "2026-05-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I managed to finish my weekly quota.", "excerpt": "Earlier this month I switched from Claude Code to Codex and wanted to try Gemini CLI as well. It felt far behind both CC and Codex but I wanted to give it another chance with the new Antigravity CLI. What can I say, it did surprise me and not in a good way in but two short sessions that included just two prompts (trying to reverse engineer some earbuds OTA firmware) using Gemini Flash 3.5, I managed to finish my week", "context": "", "use_case": "reverse engineering firmware", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"}]}