| ▲ | ddp26 5 hours ago |
| This whole blog post is seemingly about Google, not about the user. "Why We Built Antigravity" etc. "We want Antigravity to be the home base for software development in the era of agents" - cool, why would I as the user care about that? |
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| ▲ | wiseowise 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| You wouldn’t. It’s made to suck out investor money and show that google does something, not to actually bring value. My crystal ball says it will be shutdown next year. |
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| ▲ | evandrofisico 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Most of the AI products are not for the end user, they are just signaling shareholders and possible investors that the company is on the hype. | | |
| ▲ | vecter 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This kind of cynicism is wild to me. Of course most AI products (and products in general) are for end users. Especially for a company like Google--they need to do everything they can to win the AI wars, and that means winning adoption for their AI models. | |
| ▲ | rvnx 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There is also mechanism inside Google that rewards teams that launches new products, more than the teams that actually maintain existing ones. | |
| ▲ | jmpeax 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Google is still looking for investors? |
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| ▲ | rishabhd 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | funny my magic 8 ball says the same thing! | |
| ▲ | meowface 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I know Google is quick to shut things down but these ultra-cynical ultra-skeptical HN takes are so tiresome at this point. | | |
| ▲ | pydry 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is what Google is like though. It is practically part of their corporate DNA. | | |
| ▲ | meowface 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I do not believe that Google Antigravity is aimed at wooing investors. I believe it is intended to be a genuine superior alternative to Cursor and Kiro etc. and is attempting to provide the best AI coding experience for the average developer. Most of the other people (so far) in this sub-thread do not think this. They essentially have a conspiratorial view on it. |
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| ▲ | tnolet 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| After using Google AI studio, Google Vertex, and Google Gemini Chat I honestly can't wait to use Google Antigravity! edit: Also Jules... snark off: I think the Google PMs should have coffee together and see if all of this sprawl makes any sense. |
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| ▲ | koakuma-chan 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It does? Google AI studio is their developer dashboard. Google Vertex is their equivalent of Amazon Bedrock. Google Gemini Chat is their ChatGPT app for normies. Google Antigravity is their Cursor equivalent. | | |
| ▲ | vineyardmike 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I agree what you’ve listed makes sense as a product portfolio. But AI Studio is getting vibe coding tools. AI Studio also has a API that competes with Vertex. They have IDE plugins for existing IDEs to expose Chat, Agents, etc. They also have Gemini CLI for when those don’t work. There is also Firebase Studio, a browser based IDE for vibe coding. Jules, a browser based code agent orchestration tool. Opal, a node-based tool to build AI… things? Stich, a tool to build UIs. Colab with AI for a different type of coding. Notebook LM for AI research (many features now available in Gemini App). AI Overviews and AI mode in search, which now feature a generic chat interface. Thats just new stuff, and not including all the existing products (Gmail, Home) that have Gemini added. This is the benefit of a big company vs startups. They can build out a product for every type of user and every user journey, at once. | | |
| ▲ | xnx 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Don't forget Gemini CLI In another 2 years we'll probably be back to just "Google" as digital agent that can do any research, creative, or coding task you can imagine. | |
| ▲ | koakuma-chan 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I concede. |
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| ▲ | exitb 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | And In practice, when I needed to use one of their models for a small project, it turned out that the only sane way is to go via OpenRouter… | |
| ▲ | drcongo 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Google Vertex is their equivalent of Amazon Bedrock Well, that clears that up. | | |
| ▲ | koakuma-chan 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | In "real world" you don't use OpenAI or Anthropic API directly—you are forced to use AWS, GCP, or Azure. Each of these has its own service for running LLMs, which is conceptually the same as using OpenAI or Anthropic API directly, but with much worse DX. For AWS it's called Bedrock, for GCP—Vertex, and for Azure it's AI Foundry I believe. They also may offer complementary features like prompt management, evals, etc, but from what I've seen so far it's all crap. |
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| ▲ | verdverm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Also gemini-cli (terrible) Google ADK (agent development kit, awesome) | |
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| ▲ | dygd 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The also launched a coding agent Jules: https://jules.google/ | | |
| ▲ | meowface 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Jules is the first and only one to add a full API, which I've found very beneficial. It lets you integrate agentic coding features into web apps quite nicely. (In theory you could always hack your own thing together with Claude Code or Codex to achieve a similar effect but a cloud agent with an API saves a lot of effort.) | | |
| ▲ | verdverm 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Google ADK is real nice and gives you an API as well (also web browser and terminal prompt) |
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| ▲ | pnathan 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Jules is nifty. Weirdly heavy on the browser CPU. |
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| ▲ | k1rd 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | you forgot jules |
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| ▲ | jimbokun 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Great point! Remember took my a while early in my career from changing my resume away from saying "I want to do this at my next job and make a lot of money" and towards "here is how I can make money and save costs for your company". Google didn't learn that lesson here. They are describing why us using Antigravity is good for Google, not why us using Antigravity is good for us. |
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| ▲ | layer8 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| More accurately, it should be neither about Google nor about the user, but about the product. Describe what the product is and does, don’t make assumptions about the user, and let the user be the judge of it. |
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| ▲ | DoomDestroyer 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I swear most of these pages is to sell this to companies so they can force it onto developers. The whole webpage looks like something from Apple. |
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| ▲ | hereme888 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| All these companies were built by self-referential narcissists, and it seems to be their culture at the core. |
