By skyforbes The first time I opened Google Antigravity, it did not feel like an editor.
It felt like walking into a room where several invisible engineers were already working on my laptop.
Tabs opened by themselves.
Commands ran in the terminal without my fingers moving.
A “mission panel” kept asking me what I wanted the agents to build next.
On slides, that sounds perfect.
In real life, it raised a deeper question in my head:
Do I actually want an IDE that can touch my browser, my terminal, and my repo without asking me every time?
That tension sat with me the whole week I used Antigravity as my main environment.
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What Antigravity Tries To Be
Most AI coding tools still behave like very clever autocomplete.
Antigravity goes further. It tries to be:
- a desktop IDE that feels close to VS Code
- a manager for several specialised AI agents
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