It helped that he actually used and believed in the products he was pitching.

I'd enjoy someone copying Steve Wozniak even more.

This is AI-maxing bleeding into everything. “Make me a great conference presentation”, and this is roughly what you get. AI-nshittification writ large. It’s sad to watch.

I believe tomorrow their is a Gemma keynote

I mean... I don't really expect anything since Gemma 4 was released recently

It must have improved considerably since I tried the "3.5-flash-preview" a couple of months ago if all these claims in the presentations are true. Because it couldn't even make changes in a 200 line Python script without doing major mistakes (like messing up argument order when calling functions) when I tried it.

3.5 flash is presumably cheaper to run than pro too... Perhaps the company is compute constrained like everyone else is?

flash beating the pro it was distilled from is suspicious, not surprising.distillation usually loses you something. if the smaller model is winning on agentic evals, the more likely read is the evals weren't measuring agent quality in the first place. that's the bigger problem for builders, not which model to pick.

Couldn't get it to work on Chrome. Had to find the stream on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSncx9zLIU

Same issue in Firefox.

I had to disable ublock, maybe you have it installed in firefox and not chrome?

In fairness I don't think that's Google's fault. Circa 2009 we were in a Cambrian explosion of possibility with mobile. These days the tech is just... fine.

I agree, they used to be exciting but now it's just AI nonsense, and they basically don't change Android now.

Google Wave was ahead of its time. It could've been a meaningful Slack competitor

I remember that launch. Poor Lars dancing around onstage during the connection hiccups. Google glass skyding in a few years later. Fun times.

I am far from young, but I fail to see the appeal to this prelapsarian age when we controlled our devices.

In no uncertain ways, when things come to technogy things are so much better. Linux is awesome nowadays, self hosting is cheap and easy to get into, etc.

How exactly are things worse now in regards to controlling your own devices?

When was that? When phones used wires?

Unironically you can put "what are good demos for agentic workflows at Google I/O that would be received well by the general public" into Gemini's AI Mode and get better suggestions for use cases than what they're showing.

It's gotta be booking a flight or restaurant or something. They demo this every year and it never works.

> They claim the AI itself built an OS and demoed Doom running on it.

Doom ran on MS-DOS, which - by modern standards - provided a shockingly minimal set of abstractions for programs. I think about the only thing you need to run Doom is the int 21h "API" to access the FAT filesystem and perform keyboard I/O. Note that MS-DOS did not provide facilities such as memory virtualization / management, process management, video drivers, sound drivers, etc - that was all provided by the hardware itself, which had its own hardware interrupts handled by the code in the device's ROM. It's why Doom required you to choose the type of a sound card you have, the interrupt / DMA channel to use, etc.

So I think this is a lot less of a flex than it seems; in fact, Anthropic using agents to build a semi-unusable compiler is far more of an achievement. Providing enough of int 21h to run Doom is probably something that a human could do in a weekend, doubly so if they can peek at the source code of FreeDOS.

One can only dream of Gemini Spam-Detector 3.5, which will finally make YouTube useable again. I can’t believe the kind of crap that gets recommended in the Kids app.

I don't think you can get much more real-time than what we already have? iOS and Android both do live translations through their respective earbuds at decent latency, you can't get much faster without running into fundamental linguistics limitations.

For instance, you can't translate a Japanese sentence into English until you reach the verb at the end; no amount of latency improvement can overcome the fact that languages have different word orders.

The first thing mentioned is copying something that exists. The second thing is not.

pretty much

Looks like it. Found this:

> On June 18, 2026, Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions will stop serving requests for Google AI Pro and Ultra, as well as those using it free of charge using Gemini Code Assist for individuals.

https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transi...

Same, but it was trivial to find on YouTube instead.

Tinkering and experimentation.

Could be a good use for older hardware. Why not.

Why wouldn’t you want to?

It's an example of AI coding agents successfully completing complex coding tasks.

Only speaking for myself, but I use it a lot, and intentionally. Enough that I set up a search engine shortcut for it in my browser (g <space> type prompt here <enter>).

I much prefer it to having to click through links to find things. My last handful of searches were:

- Looking up open hours for a local store

- Defining words

- "postgres select where string has prefix"

- "cloudformation read parameter from ssm"

Things where I want to look up a fact, but want an answer right away without having to read through multiple pages.

I've used it for live service video games, it's pretty good at summarizing major changes to a game since you've played it last. With regular web search you'd have to go to every major patch and a lot of games don't even have good patch notes / it's all stuck in content creator videos.

Though I still prefer Claude for this since it's better at citing sources.

Not surprising. It’s placed exactly where the regular search results used to be (when navigating away from image results) and muscle memory is strong. Haven’t clicked it intentionally once though.

I've accidentally clicked ai mode probably 3+ times a week recently, so that's some real good metrics ;)

Yeah I actually use AI mode a fair bit. It has access to Google's index so it can be quite a good search engine interface when the normal one doesn't work (which is quite often).

Judging by global RAM, storage, and compute hardware demand, yes there is.

At the moment, I end up using AI mode only because the ads are not as prominent as the normal search.

For many queries, if I don't get an AI Mode response, I formulate it again until I do.

Looks like Flash 3.5 is GA ("stable"): https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-flas...

They will. They've been falling behind on the benchmarks for a few months, and I bet that's because they're waiting for IO.

Expect all models to increase in price 3x with new releases. They're easing us into the margins they're targeting.

Flash 3 wasnt appropriately priced, it was priced to get you used to a certain level of spending, then they'll crank it up and get you used to the next level of spending.

I guess you didn't get the memo from last month: Loss leader pricing is over, you're now paying a less subsidized price, and will continue to until it's profitable

That did cost money? Or better, someone was paying for this? I was only using the web version and thought it was free of charge.

Gemini 3.5 flash beats Gemini 3.1 pro at all benchmarks.

I found that ublock origin was blocking it. I disabled ublock origin and the button works.

same here

this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSncx9zLIU

Most AI IDEs are VSCode fork. Everyone is just pushing their own subscription service. Antigravity is made by Windsurf team and pushes Gemini models

You have to realize why something like antigravity exists.

There are two usual ways it occurs:

1. Political fights internal to the company resulting in incoherent strategy and products. HN assumes this is almost always the case, and but it's only sometimes the case :).

or

2. A bunch of execs sitting in a room saying stuff like "we have to have a platform with eyeballs that we control where we can surface our AI innovations and tools or else we'll be disintermediated/unable to release stuff that matters" or whatever.

(or both!)

The second part is often a real problem to solve. The first (you have to have a platform) does not follow.

At least two of the main issues with solving these kinds of problems this way (ie antigravity) is:

a. No user actually cares about your strategic problems and isn't interested in helping you. What you release still has to be valuable/etc enough that people are willing to use it over their existing tooling. At least right now, antigravity really isn't.

b. The strategy seems to assume a complete vacuum where it's Google vs existing tools. However, there are tons of large developer companies with the same exact problem of wanting a place they control to surface stuff (or whatever particular problem this is meant to solve). If they opt for the same approach, why would Google's strategy beat them? . If they opt for a different approach, same question.

If you poke there, i suspect you will find nobody has good answers to these questions.

So this approach turns into, at best, skating to where the puck is instead of where it will be.

Erm - It is VSCode.

They have like 100 junk AI products, antigravity is just one. AI is hardly super charging anyone's work either, regardless of how you package it, especially normies.

95% of people just want to search things and be entertained with their tech. Most dont want to write slop emails at light speed or whatever it is you think AI might be useful for to the average person.

If you consider slopifying your output at a really high velocity "supercharging" then maybe.

Edge browser copied Chrome, its only fair

Developers Developers Developers!

"we can't wait to see what you'll ask our models to build !"

oh my god. i heard it 6 times.

Gemini 3.5 is imminent.

https://www.voxelbench.ai/leaderboard

Why are these comments being downvoted?

and I don't think anybody likes getting AI written emails, at least if I smell any AI I immediately get a sour feeling

Indeed it is. I always wanted to chat with my clippy. Finally, after 20-25 years I now have the opportunity to do so /s

I can't think of a way to mock all the ai hype more than what they actually just talk about.

"Next, our hacker news AI agent reads and comments for you based on your commenting history, no need to think or do anything at all - we'll automate your time wasting and make better, more relevant jokes than you & your karma score will increase exponentially."

I hope you didn't type all of this yourself, but use some AI agent slopgen workflow..

Well in that case, I predict you are going to be in luck!

AIAIAIAIAIAI...to<infinity>

Powerful. AI

i went to Google Cloud Next last month, this comment is on point

I went to every single I/O since the very first one, but stopped going last year after finding it utterly uninteresting due to this fixation. It's great hearing about new tech, but it felt like every single session was either about AI or had AI awkwardly crammed into it - even sessions where it had nothing to do with the core subject matter. It was like some gatekeeper told the engineers their topic wouldn't make the lineup unless the word "AI" was in the title.

Steve Burke, is that you?

Cognitive surrender, wash over my person!

bro I read this, opened the keynote stream and the presenter said "Agents in Gemini" HAHAHAHA

Honestly getting tired of this knee jerk anti-AI stance here on HN. We’re talking about the most revolutionary technology in history that’s going to change every facet of our lives. It’s getting toxic, now we have people getting booed at graduations for just mentioning AI. There will be a transition but it’s not the end of the world. Don’t cling to the past, look forward to the future.

While I get your point, this kind of gives me "Old man yelling at cloud" vibes. Yes, all the AI talk and bullshit bingo became quite annoying at this point, and I also can't wait for it to settle. But AI is here, and it's here to stay. Wether we like it or not. It's like what dotcom was for the internet back then. We'll get through this eventually - with a bubble bursting here and there - but making fun of it with overtuned phrases like "Everything will be connected to the internet in the future, even your fridge, car and toothbrush!" won't age too well I am afraid.

It's the free square on the bingo card

Maybe Google will finally launch a working coding agent

I honestly don't know what I expected, but wow it really is just only ai

the question is whether they will talk about anything apart from AI lol

AGI now surely!

Winning the AI race means obsoleting their current profitable business. They might win but at what cost?

Funny how you are saying this now, but not 2 to 3 years [0] ago when OpenAI and Microsoft was eating Google's lunch and even 9 months ago when everyone on this site thought Intel was "dying". [1]

Now you want to buy Intel and Google just as I am about to sell it you at 9-10x and at a 3x multiple?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39527133

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066995