{"slug": "antigravity", "name": "Antigravity", "category": "ai-coding", "category_name": "AI coding tools", "description": "Google's agentic AI coding IDE and CLI, built around Gemini models", "recommenders": 44, "commenters": 108, "warners": 22, "score": 29.469, "rising": 6.84, "first": "2025-11-18", "latest": "2026-10-30", "why": "Liked for fast coding with Gemini models, especially frontend work, and for running task lists unsupervised.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 45, "neutral": 42, "compare": 5, "warn": 23}, "spark": [1, 2, 5, 4, 6, 1, 1, 7, 2, 5, 8, 3], "listed": true, "loved": ["Daily driver", "Speed"], "caveat": "Low quotas", "short_quote": "After getting frustrated with how slow Claude was on my personal projects, I switched to Google Antigravity and the speed difference is huge.", "icon": true, "domain": "antigravity.google", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://antigravity.google", "pricing": "freemium", "aliases": ["Antigravity", "Google Antigravity", "AntiGravity", "Antigravity IDE"], "verdict": [{"text": "Liked for fast coding with Gemini models,", "cites": [{"id": 794771825, "item_id": 49673239, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673239", "by": "vallerie", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've found good success with the new Gemini models on Antigravity.", "excerpt": "I've found good success with the new Gemini models on Antigravity. Granted I use my models either: - like a fancy auto complete (here are some stub methods, they should do X, fill them in) - using fairly detailed plans and test harnesses, so blowing up the world is hard The 3.X Flash family have been fairly capable models, and the selling point for me is just raw speed. Gemini is noticeably faster than the competitio", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"}, {"id": 775708704, "item_id": 48481794, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481794", "by": "evilturnip", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "After getting frustrated with how slow Claude was on my personal projects, I switched to Google Antigravity and the speed difference is huge.", "excerpt": "I get exactly what you mean. After getting frustrated with how slow Claude was on my personal projects, I switched to Google Antigravity and the speed difference is huge. I feel more in the flow and just more focused on the task. I did not realize how much a difference speed can make. I feel that Claude is better for extremely complicated, large codebases where its slower response time might be a good trade-off for t", "context": "", "use_case": "personal projects coding", "switched_from": "Claude", "story": "DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation"}, {"id": 780361187, "item_id": 48772574, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772574", "by": "kordlessagain", "date": "2026-07-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like Antigravity a lot because it moves crazy fast for coding.", "excerpt": "I built a terminal that is also an agent comms system. Way back when Claude Code first came out I hacked together something to get two of them talking to each other and inserting text and reading from each others respective TTYs, and it was horribly hacky, so I set about actually understanding how CLIs, TUIs, and terminals work (I had written a simplified terminal based on jquery-terminal a long while ago during Covi", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"}]}, {"text": " especially frontend work,", "cites": [{"id": 766065904, "item_id": 47879119, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879119", "by": "gnunez", "date": "2026-04-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like using Antigravity for some of my frontend work, and I find it does a better job than Claude Code", "excerpt": "I agree. I like using Antigravity for some of my frontend work, and I find it does a better job than Claude Code - Opus 4.6. I\u2019ve also found the Gemini Flash models to be good at legal defense research\u2014I use them to help New Yorkers fight parking tickets (https://nyceasyparking.com). That said, the Claude models are still amazing at agentic work.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"}, {"id": 760224529, "item_id": 47514033, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514033", "by": "user7878", "date": "2026-03-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Use Google Antigravity Pro for major frontend tasks", "excerpt": "Setup Cursor \u2013 $20/month Kilocode plugin (inside Cursor) \u2013 Free models Google Antigravity Pro Opencode \u2013 Free models Workflow - Backend Development Use Cursor for major backend tasks Flow: Plan \u2192 Execute - Frontend Development Use Google Antigravity Pro for major frontend tasks Flow: Plan \u2192 Execute - Minor Tasks & Bug Fixes Use: Opencode Kilocode (inside Cursor) Remote / On-the-Go Setup A Telegram-configured Opencode", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: $50 monthly budget, which coding models would you recommend now?"}, {"id": 798621665, "item_id": 49913854, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913854", "by": "spankalee", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "so is the Antigravity harness", "excerpt": "3.8 Flash is just quite good, and so is the Antigravity harness. I use a mix of Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, and Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini holds it's own. Especially in writing, frontend, and sysadmin work. agy for configuring a NixOS system has been truly incredible.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}]}, {"text": " and for running task lists unsupervised.", "cites": [{"id": 795882150, "item_id": 49742634, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742634", "by": "vegadw", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "On Antigravity/Gemini, I can give it a big list-o-TODOs and have it make a very detailed implementation plan itself, carry it out, and generally do the thing, all unsupervised.", "excerpt": "Not really? I have some custom skills/MCP servers I use: one MCP server for using https://usefeyn.com/blog/pulpie-pareto-optimal-models-for-cleaning-the-web/ ran locally so that reading web pages is cheaper and uses up less context One MCP server for doing automated code quality checking, using Valknut, Jscpd, and Lizard to output scores, combine/aggregate them. That's then give to the model so that it can see if the", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others"}, {"id": 780134928, "item_id": 48758433, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758433", "by": "muzani", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Antigravity started the workflow where you give a list of things to do", "excerpt": "In the last 12 months? Antigravity started the workflow where you give a list of things to do and it goes off and does those things without supervision, including drafting and testing edge cases. It can even spin up images. Fable is the latest form of this workflow. Gemini 3 Pro is actually at a mid designer level. None of the others are even at a junior human design level. Sonnet 4.5 was, for a brief moment, creativ", "context": "", "use_case": "unsupervised coding tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Does anybody still FEEL improvements between latest LLMs for coding?"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is low usage quotas that can run out in minutes or a few prompts,", "cites": [{"id": 804546704, "item_id": 50284169, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284169", "by": "hackernudes", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it used up my weekly quota in 10 minutes without stopping or giving me anything useful at all", "excerpt": "Me too. I have a basic Google One account which is now called \"Google AI Plus\" and it says \"Get 2x higher usage access than Free\". The Google AI Pro plan says \"Get 4x higher usage access than Free\" (from https://gemini.google/subscriptions/). I tried antigravity with Gemini 3.8 Flash High. I used a prompt similar to what I use with Codex and Claude Code and it used up my weekly quota in 10 minutes without stopping or", "context": "embedded firmware developer, pays $20 plans for Anthropic and OpenAI", "use_case": "embedded firmware coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Carbon"}, {"id": 771437312, "item_id": 48214832, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214832", "by": "ChildOfChaos", "date": "2026-05-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "But they basically killed it on the pro plan. Very disappointed and upset today", "excerpt": "It's insane this update. I hope they increase the quota and this is just a capacity issue. But they basically killed it on the pro plan. Very disappointed and upset today, I've burnt through my weekly allowance on a handful of prompts trying to fix a bug that it's made worse. Now I can't use it for 6 days.", "context": "Pro plan user", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative"}, {"id": 790646352, "item_id": 49415397, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49415397", "by": "DefamationStati", "date": "2026-08-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the limits as absolutely abysmal when using 3.7 flash in antigravity", "excerpt": "I've got the AI pro plan for Gemini and the limits as absolutely abysmal when using 3.7 flash in antigravity, If I use swarms then I can't even finish a single prompt without it reaching the limit.", "context": "has Gemini AI Pro plan", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"}, {"id": 771604048, "item_id": 48225253, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225253", "by": "estebarb", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "These week announcements are effectively Google doing a rug pull to its customers. Now simple changes cannot be done anymore within antigravity without it to consume its full quota.", "excerpt": "I have refused to lean too hard on agentic tooling for developing. I'm aware of the gains, I use it at my daily job. But I cannot afford to loss my brain skills, just in case they do a rug pull. These week announcements are effectively Google doing a rug pull to its customers. Now simple changes cannot be done anymore within antigravity without it to consume its full quota. Personally I downgraded my Google One subsc", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch"}]}, {"text": " along with bugs and disruptive updates.", "cites": [{"id": 779336273, "item_id": 48708517, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708517", "by": "moshegramovsky", "date": "2026-06-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Antigravity is not a good product.", "excerpt": "I am a huge fan of Google Gemini, but Antigravity is not a good product. Just recently I've had issues with: * Repeated instances of incorrect code insertion that the agent cannot clean up. Sure, version control, but this is often happening in new files that aren't even in version control yet. * Lost chat history when I close and restart the app. * Not being able to restore a chat from the history (just saw this last", "context": "C++ developer", "use_case": "AI coding, planning", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models"}, {"id": 771305936, "item_id": 48206621, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206621", "by": "tegeek", "date": "2026-05-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Antigravity removed all the vscode extentions.", "excerpt": "I had been using Antigravity for about 4 months now. I used Gemini Pro 3.1 heavily for small to medium size projects, alongside I used AWS Kiro and Claude Code. Then I use Angtigravity but instead of Gemini I installed Claude code extention which was working great till Today with the new update, Antigravity removed all the vscode extentions. Not sure even how git will work here. This antigravity update isn't an updat", "context": "used it about 4 months", "use_case": "AI coding IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"}, {"id": 792294288, "item_id": 49518393, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49518393", "by": "dan_voronov", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The desktop version was basically unusable, so I used the console one.", "excerpt": "I suffered with Antigravity 1 and 2 for a long time (I\u2019m not some weirdo, I just run a blog where I do deep dives into AI tools for programming=). The desktop version was basically unusable, so I used the console one. A couple of weeks ago I finally dropped it and switched to Pi with antigr login. With plugins you can configure it however you want. I just installed one of a deep-search plugins too: you need to add AP", "context": "runs a blog doing deep dives into AI programming tools", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Daily driver", "summary": "Some commenters use it as a main coding agent and find it comparable to Claude Code.", "quotes": [{"id": 795552320, "item_id": 49722020, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49722020", "by": "qingcharles", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've used Antigravity as my main coding agent on one of my biggest projects for about a year. It's been great for me.", "excerpt": "I've used Antigravity as my main coding agent on one of my biggest projects for about a year. It's been great for me. (and I use Claude, Codex, Grok and Muse for all the other projects)", "context": "", "use_case": "main coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"}, {"id": 792650080, "item_id": 49540630, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540630", "by": "drusepth", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Antigravity is probably the best of the bunch I've tried.", "excerpt": "Antigravity is probably the best of the bunch I've tried. I'd say it's pretty comparable to Claude Code (I use both daily).", "context": "", "use_case": "harness for Gemini models", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"}, {"id": 779323987, "item_id": 48707749, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707749", "by": "mark_l_watson", "date": "2026-06-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Google Gemini with Antigravity is a good product", "excerpt": "Misleading title on HN but an interesting article, a reminder of why the hyper scalers are investing heavily in infrastructure. That said, I expect much of the AI bubble to pop. Google Gemini with Antigravity is a good product, as is a Claude Code subscription but I have switched to using DeepSeek v4 Pro with the Claude Code harness and DeepSeek v4 Flash with the OpenCode harness (when I am not using local models wit", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models"}]}, {"label": "Speed", "summary": "Commenters say it is much faster than competing tools, which helps them stay in the flow.", "quotes": [{"id": 775708704, "item_id": 48481794, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481794", "by": "evilturnip", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "After getting frustrated with how slow Claude was on my personal projects, I switched to Google Antigravity and the speed difference is huge.", "excerpt": "I get exactly what you mean. After getting frustrated with how slow Claude was on my personal projects, I switched to Google Antigravity and the speed difference is huge. I feel more in the flow and just more focused on the task. I did not realize how much a difference speed can make. I feel that Claude is better for extremely complicated, large codebases where its slower response time might be a good trade-off for t", "context": "", "use_case": "personal projects coding", "switched_from": "Claude", "story": "DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation"}, {"id": 794771825, "item_id": 49673239, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673239", "by": "vallerie", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've found good success with the new Gemini models on Antigravity.", "excerpt": "I've found good success with the new Gemini models on Antigravity. Granted I use my models either: - like a fancy auto complete (here are some stub methods, they should do X, fill them in) - using fairly detailed plans and test harnesses, so blowing up the world is hard The 3.X Flash family have been fairly capable models, and the selling point for me is just raw speed. Gemini is noticeably faster than the competitio", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"}, {"id": 780361187, "item_id": 48772574, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772574", "by": "kordlessagain", "date": "2026-07-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like Antigravity a lot because it moves crazy fast for coding.", "excerpt": "I built a terminal that is also an agent comms system. Way back when Claude Code first came out I hacked together something to get two of them talking to each other and inserting text and reading from each others respective TTYs, and it was horribly hacky, so I set about actually understanding how CLIs, TUIs, and terminals work (I had written a simplified terminal based on jquery-terminal a long while ago during Covi", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"}]}, {"label": "Unsupervised workflows", "summary": "It can turn a list of tasks into a plan and carry it out without supervision.", "quotes": [{"id": 795882150, "item_id": 49742634, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742634", "by": "vegadw", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "On Antigravity/Gemini, I can give it a big list-o-TODOs and have it make a very detailed implementation plan itself, carry it out, and generally do the thing, all unsupervised.", "excerpt": "Not really? I have some custom skills/MCP servers I use: one MCP server for using https://usefeyn.com/blog/pulpie-pareto-optimal-models-for-cleaning-the-web/ ran locally so that reading web pages is cheaper and uses up less context One MCP server for doing automated code quality checking, using Valknut, Jscpd, and Lizard to output scores, combine/aggregate them. That's then give to the model so that it can see if the", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others"}, {"id": 780134928, "item_id": 48758433, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758433", "by": "muzani", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Antigravity started the workflow where you give a list of things to do", "excerpt": "In the last 12 months? Antigravity started the workflow where you give a list of things to do and it goes off and does those things without supervision, including drafting and testing edge cases. It can even spin up images. Fable is the latest form of this workflow. Gemini 3 Pro is actually at a mid designer level. None of the others are even at a junior human design level. Sonnet 4.5 was, for a brief moment, creativ", "context": "", "use_case": "unsupervised coding tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Does anybody still FEEL improvements between latest LLMs for coding?"}, {"id": 774656480, "item_id": 48416030, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416030", "by": "blfr", "date": "2026-06-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Antigravity's /grill-me feature where it asks you a bunch of questions like a system/business analyst and gives you an implementation plan for review", "excerpt": "I banged out a simple FastAPI endpoint/tool (along with dockerization and deployment) and a media-heavy Astro website (along with Cloudflare Pages publishing) in Google's Antigravity2. https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-2 Not really a recommendation since I don't have a good benchmark of these tools but Antigravity's /grill-me feature where it asks you a bunch of questions like a system/business analyst a", "context": "", "use_case": "building FastAPI tool and Astro site", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)"}]}, {"label": "Frontend work", "summary": "Some commenters prefer it for frontend tasks, and one says it beats Claude Code there.", "quotes": [{"id": 766065904, "item_id": 47879119, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879119", "by": "gnunez", "date": "2026-04-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like using Antigravity for some of my frontend work, and I find it does a better job than Claude Code", "excerpt": "I agree. I like using Antigravity for some of my frontend work, and I find it does a better job than Claude Code - Opus 4.6. I\u2019ve also found the Gemini Flash models to be good at legal defense research\u2014I use them to help New Yorkers fight parking tickets (https://nyceasyparking.com). That said, the Claude models are still amazing at agentic work.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"}, {"id": 760224529, "item_id": 47514033, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514033", "by": "user7878", "date": "2026-03-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Use Google Antigravity Pro for major frontend tasks", "excerpt": "Setup Cursor \u2013 $20/month Kilocode plugin (inside Cursor) \u2013 Free models Google Antigravity Pro Opencode \u2013 Free models Workflow - Backend Development Use Cursor for major backend tasks Flow: Plan \u2192 Execute - Frontend Development Use Google Antigravity Pro for major frontend tasks Flow: Plan \u2192 Execute - Minor Tasks & Bug Fixes Use: Opencode Kilocode (inside Cursor) Remote / On-the-Go Setup A Telegram-configured Opencode", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: $50 monthly budget, which coding models would you recommend now?"}, {"id": 798621665, "item_id": 49913854, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913854", "by": "spankalee", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "so is the Antigravity harness", "excerpt": "3.8 Flash is just quite good, and so is the Antigravity harness. I use a mix of Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, and Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini holds it's own. Especially in writing, frontend, and sysadmin work. agy for configuring a NixOS system has been truly incredible.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}]}, {"label": "Gemini models", "summary": "Commenters report good results with Gemini Flash models inside the harness.", "quotes": [{"id": 794771825, "item_id": 49673239, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673239", "by": "vallerie", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've found good success with the new Gemini models on Antigravity.", "excerpt": "I've found good success with the new Gemini models on Antigravity. Granted I use my models either: - like a fancy auto complete (here are some stub methods, they should do X, fill them in) - using fairly detailed plans and test harnesses, so blowing up the world is hard The 3.X Flash family have been fairly capable models, and the selling point for me is just raw speed. Gemini is noticeably faster than the competitio", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"}, {"id": 798621665, "item_id": 49913854, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913854", "by": "spankalee", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "so is the Antigravity harness", "excerpt": "3.8 Flash is just quite good, and so is the Antigravity harness. I use a mix of Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, and Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini holds it's own. Especially in writing, frontend, and sysadmin work. agy for configuring a NixOS system has been truly incredible.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}, {"id": 788680098, "item_id": 49292506, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292506", "by": "gazebo2", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "found it also an effective coding agent", "excerpt": "I similarly have a weird affinity for Gemini that I can't really articulate. I used Gemini's free chat and found it great for exploring technical topics (and random one-off general walking-around-questions) and appreciated its speed, tone and accuracy. I spent a month playing with Gemini CLI / Antigravity and found it also an effective coding agent, at least for my workflow (entirely in the loop development and revie", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.7 Flash"}]}, {"label": "Browser testing", "summary": "The agent can test web pages in Chrome to find UI bugs.", "quotes": [{"id": 758979728, "item_id": 47436233, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436233", "by": "PreciousH", "date": "2026-03-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i still used antigravity for a while this year because of how the agent can natively try to test web pages using chrome", "excerpt": "Isn't windsurf now antigravity? because i still used antigravity for a while this year because of how the agent can natively try to test web pages using chrome which helps it find UI bugs,but i use mostly claude code now though", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding with UI testing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is still using Windsurf and why?"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Low quotas", "summary": "Many commenters say usage limits run out quickly, and some compare them unfavorably with Anthropic's.", "quotes": [{"id": 804546704, "item_id": 50284169, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284169", "by": "hackernudes", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it used up my weekly quota in 10 minutes without stopping or giving me anything useful at all", "excerpt": "Me too. I have a basic Google One account which is now called \"Google AI Plus\" and it says \"Get 2x higher usage access than Free\". The Google AI Pro plan says \"Get 4x higher usage access than Free\" (from https://gemini.google/subscriptions/). I tried antigravity with Gemini 3.8 Flash High. I used a prompt similar to what I use with Codex and Claude Code and it used up my weekly quota in 10 minutes without stopping or", "context": "embedded firmware developer, pays $20 plans for Anthropic and OpenAI", "use_case": "embedded firmware coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Carbon"}, {"id": 771437312, "item_id": 48214832, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214832", "by": "ChildOfChaos", "date": "2026-05-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "But they basically killed it on the pro plan. Very disappointed and upset today", "excerpt": "It's insane this update. I hope they increase the quota and this is just a capacity issue. But they basically killed it on the pro plan. Very disappointed and upset today, I've burnt through my weekly allowance on a handful of prompts trying to fix a bug that it's made worse. Now I can't use it for 6 days.", "context": "Pro plan user", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative"}, {"id": 771689680, "item_id": 48230605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230605", "by": "bercini", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google's quotas are crazy low compared to Anthropic's as of today", "excerpt": "Yeah, Google's quotas are crazy low compared to Anthropic's as of today", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative"}]}, {"label": "Bugs and UX", "summary": "Commenters report bad code insertions, lost chat history, repeated permission prompts and an unusable desktop app.", "quotes": [{"id": 779336273, "item_id": 48708517, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708517", "by": "moshegramovsky", "date": "2026-06-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Antigravity is not a good product.", "excerpt": "I am a huge fan of Google Gemini, but Antigravity is not a good product. Just recently I've had issues with: * Repeated instances of incorrect code insertion that the agent cannot clean up. Sure, version control, but this is often happening in new files that aren't even in version control yet. * Lost chat history when I close and restart the app. * Not being able to restore a chat from the history (just saw this last", "context": "C++ developer", "use_case": "AI coding, planning", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models"}, {"id": 771621824, "item_id": 48226364, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226364", "by": "pingou", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it keeps switching to \"Always Proceed\" (with a nice warning about how it is very dangerous). I have changed it 10 times then just gave up and switched to Codex.", "excerpt": "Also it keeps asking you for execution permission all the time for the same commands over and over again (even if you add them to the settings). Worse, I selected \"Terminal Command Auto Execution: Proceed in Sandbox\", and it keeps switching to \"Always Proceed\" (with a nice warning about how it is very dangerous). I have changed it 10 times then just gave up and switched to Codex.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch"}, {"id": 792294288, "item_id": 49518393, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49518393", "by": "dan_voronov", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The desktop version was basically unusable, so I used the console one.", "excerpt": "I suffered with Antigravity 1 and 2 for a long time (I\u2019m not some weirdo, I just run a blog where I do deep dives into AI tools for programming=). The desktop version was basically unusable, so I used the console one. A couple of weeks ago I finally dropped it and switched to Pi with antigr login. With plugins you can configure it however you want. I just installed one of a deep-search plugins too: you need to add AP", "context": "runs a blog doing deep dives into AI programming tools", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)"}]}, {"label": "Disruptive updates", "summary": "Commenters say updates removed VS Code extensions and made the product worse after a good start.", "quotes": [{"id": 771305936, "item_id": 48206621, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206621", "by": "tegeek", "date": "2026-05-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Antigravity removed all the vscode extentions.", "excerpt": "I had been using Antigravity for about 4 months now. I used Gemini Pro 3.1 heavily for small to medium size projects, alongside I used AWS Kiro and Claude Code. Then I use Angtigravity but instead of Gemini I installed Claude code extention which was working great till Today with the new update, Antigravity removed all the vscode extentions. Not sure even how git will work here. This antigravity update isn't an updat", "context": "used it about 4 months", "use_case": "AI coding IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"}, {"id": 792287120, "item_id": 49517945, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517945", "by": "CSMastermind", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "There was a brief period of time I was using Anti-gravity as my daily driver when they first introduced it and then they just completely screwed it up.", "excerpt": "It's impressive how badly Google has screwed up their models and coding products. There was a brief period of time I was using Anti-gravity as my daily driver when they first introduced it and then they just completely screwed it up.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily coding driver", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)"}, {"id": 771599824, "item_id": 48224989, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224989", "by": "pglevy", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "There's your mistake right there. There is history. User beware.", "excerpt": "> Antigravity, as part of the Google AI Ultra plan, is my daily driver, my workhorse. There's your mistake right there. There is history. User beware.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch"}]}, {"label": "Account access", "summary": "Commenters describe entitlement, subscription and repeated browser login problems.", "quotes": [{"id": 792808688, "item_id": 49550543, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550543", "by": "deno", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "still you won't be able to use even the free tier of Antigravity.", "excerpt": "Also word of warning: don't buy Google AI subscription before you confirm you have \"Antigravity entitlement\" whatever that is. You can have \"verified\" account (for 18+ and Gmail), bank card added, active AI Pro subscription, and still you won't be able to use even the free tier of Antigravity. And their verification is some major AI slop that just doesn't work. This is open from June but this was already a bug in Gem", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended"}, {"id": 778675074, "item_id": 48667192, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667192", "by": "anigbrowl", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Launch it on an agentic task, it gets part way through and stops, asking me to subscribe.", "excerpt": "So a couple weeks ago I decided to pay some money for the Gemini API cause I'd found myself getting a lot of use out of the free tier chat and figured they deserved some of my cash. First headache was a lot of delays and 'service unavailable due to excessive load messages'. Second headache was a lot of frustration with the Continue plugin in my IDE. Gemini chat suggests I try the Antigravity app. I do so. IT's OK. La", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash"}, {"id": 771748736, "item_id": 48234296, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234296", "by": "mellosouls", "date": "2026-05-22", "stance": "warn", "quote": "My Antigravity (forced) replacement for Gemini CLI requires me to log on via browser every time I use it, and my Antigravity IDE won't update at all", "excerpt": "Antigravity may well Top the whatever benchmark but: My Antigravity (forced) replacement for Gemini CLI requires me to log on via browser every time I use it, and my Antigravity IDE won't update at all, so: If it's ok I'd prefer they just work on reaching a baseline acceptable rollout before worrying about being Top in anything. Ps actual title: OpenSCAD LLM Benchmark: Building the Pantheon", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "Gemini CLI", "story": "Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark"}]}, {"label": "Resource heavy", "summary": "One commenter calls it heavy on RAM and CPU.", "quotes": [{"id": 801584178, "item_id": 50099011, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50099011", "by": "usernametaken29", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it\u2019s about as heavy as antigravity", "excerpt": "I wish they\u2019d invest more time in performance improvements over code mods. I recently switched to pi which uses an order of magnitude less RAM (hundreds vs dozens) and noticeably less CPU on my machine\u2026 OpenCode is really nice but it\u2019s about as heavy as antigravity and is substandard in features\u2026", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenCode 2.0"}]}, {"label": "Security refusals", "summary": "One commenter says Gemini in Antigravity refuses security auditing tasks.", "quotes": [{"id": 781409283, "item_id": 48838080, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838080", "by": "SwellJoe", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Gemini in Antigravity also refuses any security auditing task", "excerpt": "I've found in my current work on a security auditing harness and benchmarks, both Fable and Opus are useless. I recently switched to using GPT for Nelson and the security benchmarks I've been doing because Opus started refusing to do the work. I guess I probably could also use GLM or DeepSeek or MiMo, and I'll probably do some experiments to see the shape of all of their guardrails in this area soon, now that I see i", "context": "", "use_case": "security auditing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fable is not a useful model"}]}], "who": [{"by": "vardhan1237", "context": "PaperPilot developer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242458", "date": "2026-10-26"}, {"by": "harshalizee", "context": "works in an MS-stack company as a dotnet developer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133349", "date": "2026-10-17"}, {"by": "mceleri", "context": "developer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50012420", "date": "2026-10-08"}, {"by": "rakyll", "context": "co-creator of AX", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793311", "date": "2026-09-21"}, {"by": "doix", "context": "non-professional projects", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49518428", "date": "2026-09-01"}, {"by": "sanarothe", "context": "not a software engineer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49518376", "date": "2026-09-01"}, {"by": "hn_throw2025", "context": "has a Gemini subscription", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487793", "date": "2026-08-29"}, {"by": "antonvs", "context": "works at a company that values cheap tooling", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191709", "date": "2026-08-05"}, {"by": "algoth1", "context": "non-coding professional automating complex tasks", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48693357", "date": "2026-06-26"}, {"by": "trollbridge", "context": "small dev team of 6", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648590", "date": "2026-06-23"}, {"by": "shsh1312", "context": "low-budget AI coding", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594703", "date": "2026-06-18"}, {"by": "matbanik", "context": "Linux user, QA work", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536053", "date": "2026-06-14"}], "tags": ["for frontend work", "for personal projects", "for non-programmers", "for Gemini subscribers", "for Linux users"], "use_cases": ["ai coding", "coding", "coding agent", "ai coding harness", "coding harness", "ai coding agent"], "compared": [{"slug": "codex", "name": "Codex", "co": 33, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 3}, {"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 33, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "cursor", "name": "Cursor", "co": 14, "switched_from": 3, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "gemini", "name": "Gemini", "co": 19, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 15, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude-opus", "name": "Claude Opus", "co": 13, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "opencode", "name": "OpenCode", "co": 12, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "gemini-cli", "name": "Gemini CLI", "co": 7, "switched_from": 2, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517537", "title": "Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222529", "title": "Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276792", "title": "Gemini 4 Carbon", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913571", "title": "Gemini 4 Argon", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672966", "title": "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208281", "title": "Ask HN: Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative", "mentions": 3}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 2, "warn": 1}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 5, "neutral": 3}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 4, "recommend": 4, "compare": 1}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 6, "warn": 1}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 3, "recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 3, "warn": 8, "compare": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 7, "neutral": 6, "warn": 2}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 2, "warn": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 5, "warn": 2, "neutral": 2}, "2026-09": {"warn": 3, "recommend": 8, "neutral": 9}, "2026-10": {"warn": 4, "compare": 3, "neutral": 7, "recommend": 3}}, "quotes": [{"id": 804849441, "item_id": 50303090, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303090", "by": "darkwi11ow", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Google tries to compete via Antigravity, but that also uses OpenVSX.", "excerpt": "There is no alternative really. Cursor was the market leader in LLM-assisted IDE experience before SpaceX acquisition, though Elon nerfed the product a lot in recent months. And there is still no good alternative to it. Google tries to compete via Antigravity, but that also uses OpenVSX. I myself use Cursor and use Claude there installed via OpenVSX, and was not affected only thanks to my laziness (I saw upgrade butt", "context": "", "use_case": "AI-assisted IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace"}, {"id": 804566802, "item_id": 50285425, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285425", "by": "spockz", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I\u2019m using the default anti gravity setup.", "excerpt": "I\u2019m using the default anti gravity setup. 3.8 medium is my daily driver. This gets me pretty far. (Definitely not as far as Luna and Sol). When I ask the same question to Argon it is 50% of my weekly usage limit gone. So either the usage limit is really a lot smaller or somehow argon thinks a whole lot more even for simple tasks.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Carbon"}, {"id": 804546704, "item_id": 50284169, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284169", "by": "hackernudes", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it used up my weekly quota in 10 minutes without stopping or giving me anything useful at all", "excerpt": "Me too. I have a basic Google One account which is now called \"Google AI Plus\" and it says \"Get 2x higher usage access than Free\". The Google AI Pro plan says \"Get 4x higher usage access than Free\" (from https://gemini.google/subscriptions/). I tried antigravity with Gemini 3.8 Flash High. I used a prompt similar to what I use with Codex and Claude Code and it used up my weekly quota in 10 minutes without stopping or", "context": "embedded firmware developer, pays $20 plans for Anthropic and OpenAI", "use_case": "embedded firmware coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Carbon"}, {"id": 804487888, "item_id": 50280493, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280493", "by": "nostrebored", "date": "2026-10-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I\u2019ve been using maybe 5-6 concurrent sessions and it\u2019s largely fine", "excerpt": "yes, I\u2019ve only had it really degrade once and then I used a different agy session to fix the session table. I\u2019ve been using maybe 5-6 concurrent sessions and it\u2019s largely fine", "context": "", "use_case": "CLI coding agent sessions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Carbon"}, {"id": 804106355, "item_id": 50256647, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256647", "by": "dizhn", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Both antigravity and agy are toys compared to what has been available for at least two years.", "excerpt": "I tried the Claude $20 plan for two weeks and burned the rest of it due to how much token anxiety it gave me. And I'm not ready to keep throwing money at it for it to become usable. Gemini models are actually fine for me as an amateur+ I found especially since they have regional pricing and a very generous side items package. I use the models but not the \"harness\" though. Not directly anyway. I am still handicapped b", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic S-1"}, {"id": 803879328, "item_id": 50242458, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242458", "by": "vardhan1237", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We used a hybrid workflow: Antigravity IDE paired with Jules", "excerpt": "Thanks for checking out the docs! We used a hybrid workflow: Antigravity IDE paired with Jules for asynchronous sub-tasks (like spinning up isolated unit tests and docs in parallel containers). Having a strict test-first harness where every PR has to run against real PDF byte fixtures (zero mocks) and compile across CLI, WASM, and MCP kept the codebase consistent even when moving fast.", "context": "PaperPilot developer", "use_case": "building PaperPilot", "switched_from": "", "story": "PaperPilot \u2013 Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP"}, {"id": 802677249, "item_id": 50167328, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167328", "by": "anoojb", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "compare", "quote": "The extra baseline quota with Anti-gravity could be worth it.", "excerpt": "I've heard that folks using using a mid-tier Anthropic model like Sonnet 5.5 easily run into limits. When I use GitHub Copilot (for work) with Anthropic models I can easily rack up quite a significant bill. This is why I'm comparing value for the money. While Google may not have the \"best\" models, what's the point if you hit a wall with Claude Code? The extra baseline quota with Anti-gravity could be worth it.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Best value/money AI coding plan bundle?"}, {"id": 802133589, "item_id": 50133349, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133349", "by": "harshalizee", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "primarily use Claude and antigravity", "excerpt": "You would severely limit yourself if you're strict about your list without nuance. GitHub is pretty much bog standard in most companies unless you're working for the few using mercurial, etc. I work in a MS stack and most of your list is untrue for my case. We use slack for messaging, Confluence, Wikimedia, and GDrive for documentation, Google Mail for email, I develop primarily dotnet/C# apps on a MacBook pro M5, ha", "context": "works in an MS-stack company as a dotnet developer", "use_case": "development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 801850592, "item_id": 50115662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115662", "by": "fullstackwife", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used 50% in just one task(3d gamedev) on AI Pro in Antigravity desktop.", "excerpt": "I used 50% in just one task(3d gamedev) on AI Pro in Antigravity desktop. It is not my daily driver anyways, but it was nice to see that it is actually performing and completing the task.", "context": "", "use_case": "3D game development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless"}, {"id": 801584178, "item_id": 50099011, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50099011", "by": "usernametaken29", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it\u2019s about as heavy as antigravity", "excerpt": "I wish they\u2019d invest more time in performance improvements over code mods. I recently switched to pi which uses an order of magnitude less RAM (hundreds vs dozens) and noticeably less CPU on my machine\u2026 OpenCode is really nice but it\u2019s about as heavy as antigravity and is substandard in features\u2026", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenCode 2.0"}, {"id": 801299200, "item_id": 50081200, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081200", "by": "astlouis44", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Just gemini as antigravity requires Ultra subscription to use it in that IDE", "excerpt": "Just gemini as antigravity requires Ultra subscription to use it in that IDE, whereas Argon is/was available for me on web, so I used the latter", "context": "", "use_case": "Gemini-based IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}, {"id": 801214832, "item_id": 50075927, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075927", "by": "I_am_tiberius", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Then I found Antigravity, which apparently is Google\u2019s alternative to Codex, and I installed it.", "excerpt": "I just created a Google account, which was a hassle. I tried to find an app and found AI Studio, but I\u2019m not sure what that is. Then I found Antigravity, which apparently is Google\u2019s alternative to Codex, and I installed it. Then I tried to buy the small Gemini AI Ultra package, but it didn\u2019t let me pay. It accepted neither my credit card nor my PayPal account. It\u2019s crazy how bad the Google experience is nowadays. Yo", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}, {"id": 800792738, "item_id": 50049546, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049546", "by": "joaoviniciusgs", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I built this using Antigravity and Gemini 3.8 Flash.", "excerpt": "So yeah, I made a clone of Boom 3D. If you don't know what Boom 3D is, it's an audio enhancement app available on Steam and other stores that makes your headphones sound more immersive with 3D spatial audio and other audio effects. It's called OpenBoom, and it's an open-source alternative for Windows built with Rust and Tauri. It aims to bring features like 3D spatial audio, a 31-band equalizer, AutoEq headphone prof", "context": "", "use_case": "building the app", "switched_from": "", "story": "I made an open-source Boom 3D clone. Wanna check it out?"}, {"id": 800596480, "item_id": 50037280, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037280", "by": "timonoko", "date": "2026-10-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Antigravity made simple Blender-tool that rounds all edges in STL-file.", "excerpt": "For these eternal Fillet-Whiners: Antigravity made simple Blender-tool that rounds all edges in STL-file. Sharp edges never look good in print and avoiding them feels often like too much extra work. https://github.com/timonoko/OpenSCAD-rounding-in-Blender", "context": "", "use_case": "generating Blender tool", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller"}, {"id": 800198721, "item_id": 50012420, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50012420", "by": "mceleri", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Dev guy here, so tailscale + Antigravity (+ GitHub).", "excerpt": "Dev guy here, so tailscale + Antigravity (+ GitHub). I use it to vibecode from my smartphone", "context": "developer", "use_case": "vibecoding from smartphone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"}, {"id": 798986672, "item_id": 49936667, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49936667", "by": "andriy_koval", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I use agy and codex, and don't see strong difference in ui quality.", "excerpt": "It maybe depend on workflow, you hit some corner cases for agy which I don't hit. I use agy and codex, and don't see strong difference in ui quality.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pi 1.0"}, {"id": 798861889, "item_id": 49928868, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928868", "by": "gchamonlive", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "settle for such low standards of user experience it's almost pitiful", "excerpt": "I use oh-my-pi, not sure how it compares, but I say someone praising antigravity for being a good harness(1), and for the love of good people settle for such low standards of user experience it's almost pitiful. (1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913854", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pi 1.0"}, {"id": 798642048, "item_id": 49915128, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915128", "by": "moecables", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Antigravity", "excerpt": "I use Antigravity but for some reason, `agy` in the command line feels very bad/incapable of doing things. I can't quite explain it but the most common issue I run into it is just hanging on being unable to finish a tool call", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}, {"id": 798623504, "item_id": 49913969, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913969", "by": "drusepth", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "makes me yearn for agy again", "excerpt": "What basic features are missing from agy? I've been using it and cli-cc + web-cc for months (among a few other random harnesses to test here and there) and they all seem roughly comparable to me. I actually just cancelled Ultra also because I couldn't subscribe to a YouTube Family plan while I had it active (Google... :[) but trying to use Codex as a replacement while I testdrive Astra makes me yearn for agy again.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}, {"id": 798621665, "item_id": 49913854, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913854", "by": "spankalee", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "so is the Antigravity harness", "excerpt": "3.8 Flash is just quite good, and so is the Antigravity harness. I use a mix of Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, and Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini holds it's own. Especially in writing, frontend, and sysadmin work. agy for configuring a NixOS system has been truly incredible.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}, {"id": 796692977, "item_id": 49793311, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793311", "by": "rakyll", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We use Antigravity for a few generative features", "excerpt": "Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-creators of this project. AX is a layer that is closer to job orchestration, Agent Substrate. It's NOT an agentic framework. We use Antigravity for a few generative features but are abstracting away some of these components so anyone can bring their own. AX is trying to solve some tedious things everyone has to deal with. Layering execution with the underlying stateful worker, wiring up ", "context": "co-creator of AX", "use_case": "generative features", "switched_from": "", "story": "AX \u2013 Google\u2019s Open Agentic Orchestrator"}, {"id": 796502531, "item_id": 49781408, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781408", "by": "DanMcInerney", "date": "2026-09-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "work with any harness like Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity", "excerpt": "I really don't think any of these SOTA labs are doing agentic engineering correctly. Skills are the universal language of all agent harnesses. If you abstract the taste and prescription out of the skills and into guidance docs, then leave the skills as basically just workflow scaffolding, you can build task-specific workflows that work with any harness like Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, etc. Technically, you only ", "context": "", "use_case": "agent harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "AX \u2013 Google\u2019s Open Agentic Orchestrator"}, {"id": 796397250, "item_id": 49774828, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774828", "by": "JoyenBenitto", "date": "2026-09-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have used codex and antigravity but not a huge fan of them.", "excerpt": "Yeah I have been using it to automate almost everything, even my gitlab ci's sometimes when those ci fails I just ask claude to use glab cli to figure things out on it's own. I have used codex and antigravity but not a huge fan of them. I feel my I am too much in favour of claude also because of plugins like GSD and superpower which I am accustomed too.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What happens when Claude Code goes away?"}, {"id": 795882150, "item_id": 49742634, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742634", "by": "vegadw", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "On Antigravity/Gemini, I can give it a big list-o-TODOs and have it make a very detailed implementation plan itself, carry it out, and generally do the thing, all unsupervised.", "excerpt": "Not really? I have some custom skills/MCP servers I use: one MCP server for using https://usefeyn.com/blog/pulpie-pareto-optimal-models-for-cleaning-the-web/ ran locally so that reading web pages is cheaper and uses up less context One MCP server for doing automated code quality checking, using Valknut, Jscpd, and Lizard to output scores, combine/aggregate them. That's then give to the model so that it can see if the", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others"}, {"id": 795552320, "item_id": 49722020, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49722020", "by": "qingcharles", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've used Antigravity as my main coding agent on one of my biggest projects for about a year. It's been great for me.", "excerpt": "I've used Antigravity as my main coding agent on one of my biggest projects for about a year. It's been great for me. (and I use Claude, Codex, Grok and Muse for all the other projects)", "context": "", "use_case": "main coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"}, {"id": 795360337, "item_id": 49710021, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710021", "by": "HarroGoerndt", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used my NeXus workflow together with Antigravity to create a new version from the original footage.", "excerpt": "I wasn't looking for an old video. I found it while using my own video workflow. At the time, the project was still called Happiness; today it has become NeXus. The Video Finder had found this piece of footage and I had downloaded the original. It was basically just a silent video \u2014 no voice-over, no elaborate graphics, no finished commercial. I kept it. Recently I came across it again and wondered what would happen ", "context": "", "use_case": "remaking old video", "switched_from": "", "story": "I found an old video in my own AI workflow and decided to remake it"}, {"id": 794843025, "item_id": 49677689, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49677689", "by": "tucnak", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use 3.8 flash in Antigravity a lot", "excerpt": "Hard disagree. I use 3.8 flash in Antigravity a lot, and thoroughly prefer it to most Pro-class models. It's really fast, and I've had it make crazy progress on compiler-like problems that previous models including Opus simply failed at. On ultra plan you can have it going for hours, and make incremental progress with good prompting for review interrupts. It solved a problem I couldn't solve for weeks in under 6 hour", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases"}, {"id": 794781905, "item_id": 49673869, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673869", "by": "sidibe", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Gemini 3.8 + antigravity. Opus also in antigravity for harder stuff.", "excerpt": "Gemini 3.8 + antigravity. Opus also in antigravity for harder stuff.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"}, {"id": 794778481, "item_id": 49673655, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673655", "by": "seanmcdirmid", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Gemini 3.8 flash via Antigravity desktop has been my daily driver", "excerpt": "Gemini 3.8 flash via Antigravity desktop has been my daily driver for the last few weeks. I also use DeepSeek V4 flash and a Qwen 3.6 MoE for local stuff.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"}, {"id": 794771825, "item_id": 49673239, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673239", "by": "vallerie", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've found good success with the new Gemini models on Antigravity.", "excerpt": "I've found good success with the new Gemini models on Antigravity. Granted I use my models either: - like a fancy auto complete (here are some stub methods, they should do X, fill them in) - using fairly detailed plans and test harnesses, so blowing up the world is hard The 3.X Flash family have been fairly capable models, and the selling point for me is just raw speed. Gemini is noticeably faster than the competitio", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"}, {"id": 792808688, "item_id": 49550543, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550543", "by": "deno", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "still you won't be able to use even the free tier of Antigravity.", "excerpt": "Also word of warning: don't buy Google AI subscription before you confirm you have \"Antigravity entitlement\" whatever that is. You can have \"verified\" account (for 18+ and Gmail), bank card added, active AI Pro subscription, and still you won't be able to use even the free tier of Antigravity. And their verification is some major AI slop that just doesn't work. This is open from June but this was already a bug in Gem", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended"}, {"id": 792790240, "item_id": 49549390, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549390", "by": "dbliss", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "If so i'm definitely taking agy out of the provider options..", "excerpt": "I've built a personal meta-harness on top of agy, cc, codex, kiro-cli, ollama that I use to schedule jobs, run oneshot tasks, etc. which provides a general API for my other personal apps that need to do some inference. For example, I built a personal trip app for an upcoming family vacation that uses the inference API to do things like research locations and plan routes, it basically just calls the various cli harnes", "context": "", "use_case": "inference harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended"}, {"id": 792650529, "item_id": 49540658, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540658", "by": "654wak654", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "use it for chat, antigravity, and some other work automations", "excerpt": "I'm on the Ultra plan and use it for chat, antigravity, and some other work automations (similar to your example). The only time I've ever hit my limit is when I use Deep Think (which usually eats up 4-5% of the 6-hour usage limit per response).", "context": "", "use_case": "coding and automations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"}, {"id": 792650080, "item_id": 49540630, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540630", "by": "drusepth", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Antigravity is probably the best of the bunch I've tried.", "excerpt": "Antigravity is probably the best of the bunch I've tried. I'd say it's pretty comparable to Claude Code (I use both daily).", "context": "", "use_case": "harness for Gemini models", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"}, {"id": 792294848, "item_id": 49518428, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49518428", "by": "doix", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I just stick with antigravity because it works for me", "excerpt": "I use it for all my non-professional work and I find it works well enough for me. Mostly for things that I know are possible and have a vague idea of how I would do it, but it would take me longer. Some examples in no particular order: * Made my wife's travel blog/site * Chrome extension for Crunchyroll to allow multisubs + local translation for unsupported languages (so my wife and I can watch and she doesn't need t", "context": "non-professional projects", "use_case": "personal coding projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)"}, {"id": 792294288, "item_id": 49518393, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49518393", "by": "dan_voronov", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The desktop version was basically unusable, so I used the console one.", "excerpt": "I suffered with Antigravity 1 and 2 for a long time (I\u2019m not some weirdo, I just run a blog where I do deep dives into AI tools for programming=). The desktop version was basically unusable, so I used the console one. A couple of weeks ago I finally dropped it and switched to Pi with antigr login. With plugins you can configure it however you want. I just installed one of a deep-search plugins too: you need to add AP", "context": "runs a blog doing deep dives into AI programming tools", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)"}, {"id": 792294016, "item_id": 49518376, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49518376", "by": "sanarothe", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The codebot produces everything I ask", "excerpt": "Also curious to see what issues people are having. I'm a not-software engineer but I use antigravity quite a bit for my own projects. If you give it a task, it completes it. It might so a single agent chug, or delegate some parallel tasks.. The architecture is essentially what was agreed on during the planning and spec phases. So I'm just not understanding like... The codebot produces everything I ask, I use Gemini a", "context": "not a software engineer", "use_case": "personal projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)"}, {"id": 792287120, "item_id": 49517945, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517945", "by": "CSMastermind", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "There was a brief period of time I was using Anti-gravity as my daily driver when they first introduced it and then they just completely screwed it up.", "excerpt": "It's impressive how badly Google has screwed up their models and coding products. There was a brief period of time I was using Anti-gravity as my daily driver when they first introduced it and then they just completely screwed it up.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily coding driver", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)"}, {"id": 791843329, "item_id": 49490208, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490208", "by": "Zigurd", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I know developers who use Antigravity and like it", "excerpt": "Lately I've been developing in Dart/Flutter. I use Android Studio but I know developers who use Antigravity and like it. For the past three or four months it's performed very well, even the cheaper Gemini models. No serious complaints. But if you go back a year it was pretty terrible. My work style is to keep the coding agent on a short leash so YMMV.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"}, {"id": 791804689, "item_id": 49487793, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487793", "by": "hn_throw2025", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The features you mention are in Antigravity IDE v1, which I am trying", "excerpt": "I recently cancelled Cursor. The features you mention are in Antigravity IDE v1, which I am trying as I still have a Gemini subscription. No idea how long it will be around for, as Google Antigravity2 (more like Claude Code) is clearly the favoured way forward, plus the new Antigravity for VSCode Extension*, which I didn\u2019t like as much when I tried it. It offers the same accept/reject hunk workflow, but I don\u2019t know ", "context": "has a Gemini subscription", "use_case": "AI diff review and editing", "switched_from": "Cursor", "story": "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"}, {"id": 790646352, "item_id": 49415397, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49415397", "by": "DefamationStati", "date": "2026-08-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the limits as absolutely abysmal when using 3.7 flash in antigravity", "excerpt": "I've got the AI pro plan for Gemini and the limits as absolutely abysmal when using 3.7 flash in antigravity, If I use swarms then I can't even finish a single prompt without it reaching the limit.", "context": "has Gemini AI Pro plan", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"}, {"id": 780361187, "item_id": 48772574, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772574", "by": "kordlessagain", "date": "2026-07-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like Antigravity a lot because it moves crazy fast for coding.", "excerpt": "I built a terminal that is also an agent comms system. Way back when Claude Code first came out I hacked together something to get two of them talking to each other and inserting text and reading from each others respective TTYs, and it was horribly hacky, so I set about actually understanding how CLIs, TUIs, and terminals work (I had written a simplified terminal based on jquery-terminal a long while ago during Covi", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"}, {"id": 780134928, "item_id": 48758433, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758433", "by": "muzani", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Antigravity started the workflow where you give a list of things to do", "excerpt": "In the last 12 months? Antigravity started the workflow where you give a list of things to do and it goes off and does those things without supervision, including drafting and testing edge cases. It can even spin up images. Fable is the latest form of this workflow. Gemini 3 Pro is actually at a mid designer level. None of the others are even at a junior human design level. Sonnet 4.5 was, for a brief moment, creativ", "context": "", "use_case": "unsupervised coding tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Does anybody still FEEL improvements between latest LLMs for coding?"}, {"id": 779336273, "item_id": 48708517, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708517", "by": "moshegramovsky", "date": "2026-06-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Antigravity is not a good product.", "excerpt": "I am a huge fan of Google Gemini, but Antigravity is not a good product. Just recently I've had issues with: * Repeated instances of incorrect code insertion that the agent cannot clean up. Sure, version control, but this is often happening in new files that aren't even in version control yet. * Lost chat history when I close and restart the app. * Not being able to restore a chat from the history (just saw this last", "context": "C++ developer", "use_case": "AI coding, planning", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models"}, {"id": 775708704, "item_id": 48481794, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481794", "by": "evilturnip", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "After getting frustrated with how slow Claude was on my personal projects, I switched to Google Antigravity and the speed difference is huge.", "excerpt": "I get exactly what you mean. After getting frustrated with how slow Claude was on my personal projects, I switched to Google Antigravity and the speed difference is huge. I feel more in the flow and just more focused on the task. I did not realize how much a difference speed can make. I feel that Claude is better for extremely complicated, large codebases where its slower response time might be a good trade-off for t", "context": "", "use_case": "personal projects coding", "switched_from": "Claude", "story": "DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation"}, {"id": 771604048, "item_id": 48225253, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225253", "by": "estebarb", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "These week announcements are effectively Google doing a rug pull to its customers. Now simple changes cannot be done anymore within antigravity without it to consume its full quota.", "excerpt": "I have refused to lean too hard on agentic tooling for developing. I'm aware of the gains, I use it at my daily job. But I cannot afford to loss my brain skills, just in case they do a rug pull. These week announcements are effectively Google doing a rug pull to its customers. Now simple changes cannot be done anymore within antigravity without it to consume its full quota. Personally I downgraded my Google One subsc", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch"}, {"id": 771437312, "item_id": 48214832, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214832", "by": "ChildOfChaos", "date": "2026-05-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "But they basically killed it on the pro plan. Very disappointed and upset today", "excerpt": "It's insane this update. I hope they increase the quota and this is just a capacity issue. But they basically killed it on the pro plan. Very disappointed and upset today, I've burnt through my weekly allowance on a handful of prompts trying to fix a bug that it's made worse. Now I can't use it for 6 days.", "context": "Pro plan user", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative"}, {"id": 771305936, "item_id": 48206621, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206621", "by": "tegeek", "date": "2026-05-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Antigravity removed all the vscode extentions.", "excerpt": "I had been using Antigravity for about 4 months now. I used Gemini Pro 3.1 heavily for small to medium size projects, alongside I used AWS Kiro and Claude Code. Then I use Angtigravity but instead of Gemini I installed Claude code extention which was working great till Today with the new update, Antigravity removed all the vscode extentions. Not sure even how git will work here. This antigravity update isn't an updat", "context": "used it about 4 months", "use_case": "AI coding IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"}, {"id": 766065904, "item_id": 47879119, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879119", "by": "gnunez", "date": "2026-04-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like using Antigravity for some of my frontend work, and I find it does a better job than Claude Code", "excerpt": "I agree. I like using Antigravity for some of my frontend work, and I find it does a better job than Claude Code - Opus 4.6. I\u2019ve also found the Gemini Flash models to be good at legal defense research\u2014I use them to help New Yorkers fight parking tickets (https://nyceasyparking.com). That said, the Claude models are still amazing at agentic work.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"}, {"id": 760224529, "item_id": 47514033, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514033", "by": "user7878", "date": "2026-03-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Use Google Antigravity Pro for major frontend tasks", "excerpt": "Setup Cursor \u2013 $20/month Kilocode plugin (inside Cursor) \u2013 Free models Google Antigravity Pro Opencode \u2013 Free models Workflow - Backend Development Use Cursor for major backend tasks Flow: Plan \u2192 Execute - Frontend Development Use Google Antigravity Pro for major frontend tasks Flow: Plan \u2192 Execute - Minor Tasks & Bug Fixes Use: Opencode Kilocode (inside Cursor) Remote / On-the-Go Setup A Telegram-configured Opencode", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: $50 monthly budget, which coding models would you recommend now?"}]}