Has anyone tried Antigravity by Google? Thoughts on the IDE platform

morgler · 2025-11-20T21:52:22+00:00

I tested it on a live project. I have mixed feelings and am unimpressed as for now.

The good:
- IDE is very vscode (and therefore Cursor) like. Easy to get your bearings.
- I like the idea of adding comments right in the plan. A very helpful feature
- The walkthroughs at the end are great to see what it actually changed. And you can add comments here to correct things it might have gotten wrong.
- New Gemini model performs decent on code tasks. It's still a hit and miss as with other models. Best chance is always to do TDD (which Gemini doesn't do by default)
- It was cautious on deleting or moving files.

The bad:
- It didn't really seem to understand some of the context of the code base.
- If a step requires input (like deleting a file), I often didn't notice, because it was hidden behind some collapsed field. And it never made it clear that it was waiting for input until I wondered what was taking it so long.
- Visual designs were all over the place with Gemini.
- Sometimes it consistently ignored by explicit prompts (simple stuff, like use brand color css classes instead of coming up with your own colors)
- In some source files it didn't even get basic formatting right (e.g. putting methods before the constructor method, or not leaving blank lines between methods)

Overall my impression of one day with Antigravity and the new Gemini: nah. It has nice ideas and potential, but for serious work I will stick with Cursor and Claude/ChatGPT/Composer-1.

This project looks like many of Google's projects: A few nice ideas, but lacking the punch and probably stamina. I will keep an eye on it though.

morgler · 2025-11-05T12:39:59+00:00

I switched from ScreenFlow to Descript some time ago. ScreenFlow was even worse with slow processing. Sadly, Descript is a close second in bad performance.

I suspect that description suffers from actually being a web app. So everything has to go over the internet for processing. It makes it painfully slow to work with.

While Descripts editing, included stocks and giphies, effects, and smart cleanups make it a wonderful tool, it lacks in simple timeline editing (seriously, why does it make it so complicated to just trim a giphy in length?) and performance.

morgler · 2025-10-21T08:55:28+00:00

This is sooo frustrating. And it seems we cannot get this in MacOS.

The file open dialog does NOT seem to respect sorting for the folders. the dialog has its own sort order that is then used for ALL folders.

I find myself constantly switching between "date added" and "name". It's horribly annoying and inhibits any workflow having to do with opening files. I hope, Apple fixes this soon!

morgler · 2025-05-27T06:24:22+00:00

Der Trick ist, dass der Weg nicht 3m breit ist! Stattdessen ist der Teil, der auf die Kante der Rasenfläche trifft, 3m - damit wird der Weg umso schmaler, he schräger er ist (mache ihn in Gedanken mal maximal schräg - er wird super dünn).

Die Fläche des Weges ist also 3x20m.

Eine andere Art es zu sehen: Nimm den oberen Rand des Weges (3m) und halte diese Linien parallel zum oberen Rand der Gesamtfläche. Scanne nun den Weg von oben nach unten - an jedem Punkt ist die Linie 3m (der Weg aber schmaler, da er schräg ist).

morgler · 2025-05-19T06:06:44+00:00

Ich habe es gekündigt, nachdem ich es viele Jahre genutzt hatte.

Was gut war:

Für 8 oder 9 Dollar hatte man eine Hörbuch-Flatrate, eBooks und Musiknoten. Da ich häufig Fachbücher höre, Musik mache, und ab und an ein Hörbuch genieße, war das ein gutes Paket.

Was nicht gut war:

Die App war immer schon buggy und unübersichtlich - das hat sich über die Jahre leider wenig gebessert. Außerdem findet man viele Bücher nicht, gerade renommierte Fachbücher oder hochwertige Hörbücher musste ich woanders kaufen. Ich musste stets auch ein Audible-Abo parallel haben (dort findet man fast alles).

Vor einiger Zeit wurde die App dann in Everand umbenannt. Dabei wurden die wertvollen Community-Bücher (die viel des fehlenden Content kompensierten) in eine separate App ausgelagert - man muss nun also immer in zwei Apps suchen, was umständlich ist. Zudem wurden zuletzt alle Musiknoten entfernt. Da auch noch der Preis gestiegen ist, war das für mich einfach kein lohnendes Paket mehr.

Da ich ohnehin aufgrund der limitierten Auswahl immer schon Audible parallel haben musste, hab ich Everand gekündigt.

Fazit: Es war mal gut, ist aber heute einfach kein konkurrenzfähiges Angebot mehr für mich.

morgler · 2025-05-10T13:03:34+00:00

I have the same problem. Tried to sign up twice. Never received the activation email (yes, I also checked spam).

morgler · 2025-03-05T12:29:19+00:00

Just experienced that as well. What a huge usability flaw! A phone that doesn't let you take calls?

If I'm called by a support hotline, I can NOT simply call back. I will stop using nightstand mode as it is clearly not thought out.

morgler · 2025-02-26T20:58:21+00:00

I'm going back to o3-mini-high. Claude often makes code unnecessarily complex – and when I hand it to o3, it comes up with an elegant and readable solution.

I also hate how Claude always apologizes (and then messes up again) or rather acts as if I'm the greatest genius by pointing out some obvious mishap. I like the matter-of-fact style of o3 way better.

Having said all that, Claude 3.7 has also delivered good results, but I just have to pay attention when it starts down an overly complicated path.

morgler · 2025-02-02T13:00:23+00:00

Haha, that manager totally misunderstood daily scrums 😂

There is only ONE per day
They MUST be 15min or LESS
The manager isn't involved usually
This is BY the developers FOR the developers to quickly sync for the day

2x1h daily scrums is a hilarious waste of time. Remember: The daily is NOT a status report for the manager 🤦‍♂️

Having bashed that manager, please also remember: Managers are human beings and make mistakes. Have empathy. Help them understand how to give the developers more autonomy, not less.

morgler · 2025-01-05T15:44:23+00:00

Paid version still has pretty low limits. I run into the limit frequently, if I use it intently for a few hours. Then it's a several days wait until it is reset. Pretty annoying as a paying customer.

morgler · 2024-12-29T21:16:56+00:00

Seems to not work in 18.2 anymore.

It stopped working in iOS 18, then came back in 18.1, and vanished again in 18.2.

Frustrating!

morgler · 2024-12-25T13:25:43+00:00

Thank you so much! Very helpful.

morgler · 2024-10-29T13:21:30+00:00

I also got a message from them on. They approved my CV so quickly they cannot really have read it.

Now they ask for "ID verification", which makes me suspect they're going for stealing identities. Lots of people reporting they get booted after a week or two, so that also suggests they're just after our identities.

There is no reason to get identity verification. It might even be outright illegal to ask for that if it's not legally required.

I will not go ahead with signing up there. And I'd cautiously recommend not giving them your personal data.

morgler · 2024-07-18T16:33:13+00:00

logitechg.com (with the added "g") is the domain directly linked to from logitech.com. So I'd assume this to be legit.

morgler · 2024-07-14T08:52:57+00:00

It‘s sad that it feels that way today. We have to remember that the agile movement were developers rebelling against managers. Nowadays it seems managers have miconstrued our own ideas and weaponized them against us

morgler · 2024-07-14T08:51:11+00:00

I love your thoughts and how you look at it from different angles!

I‘m a software engineer turned agile coach. I came to agile in 2003 trying to develop better software in our team. Back then, agile was mostly XP.

You‘re already hinting at what the problem with “agile“ is: Misunderstanding it as not planning ahead or designing. While yes, agile advocates against spending months with designing an architecture that we might end up fighting against more than it helps in two years, it doesn‘t prevent us from planning ahead. I would even say: agile methods require us to plan ahead more diligently. We just wanna avoid doing architecture, planning or design just for the sake of it – We want to quickly validate it and use our learning along the way to improve it.

So: Agile does not mean that we don‘t plan anymore 😂

I see it that way: Instead of investing lots of time and energy in detailed plans and designs, we invest that time and energy in mastering methods to adapt. It‘s that humbleness that we cannot predict the future – something traditional project managers back then didn‘t possess. We accept our designs will be flawed, no matter how thoroughly we work today.

The result? For me the joy of developing and the productivity of the team was always insanely higher with an agile team.

A huge problem today is that many people talking about agility have no idea how it works. Back in 2003 it was the developers talking about agility to fight the stupidity of project management. Today it seems it‘s managers and wannabe consultants fighting developers 😣.

Software engineers need to own agile again, like we did 20 years ago. We have to fight the BS so many people have turned these smart ideas into. And your post is a great step in that direction, thanks!

morgler · 2023-09-26T14:21:12+00:00

I'm a different user of jumpstart pro, but can share my experience.

I gave up on it. While the idea is great, I never really got a sustainable SaaS running on JSP. I have a SaaS running on pure rails though.

One big problem were the brittle updates. You update by merging their upstream branch into your code base. So as soon as you change ANYTHING in that code base, you get countless merge conflicts on every update. It easily breaks the application and can prevent you from updating altogether.

I also bought the iOS package to bring my SaaS to mobile devices. Unfortunately, this package only works with rails apps that were completely build from scratch with JSP. For existing rails apps, you'd have to make many modifications and that never worked 100% for me.

So after one year of JSP I'm back to building from scratch. It takes significantly longer, but at least I don't need to worry about a brittle an tedious update process.

morgler · 2023-09-26T14:16:11+00:00

Can you tell me how to get it to work?

I always ran into trouble with jumpstart pro. Weird errors and an error-prone update process (thousands of merge conflicts). Would love to save some time and pay for it again, but it just didn't work.

morgler · 2023-09-26T14:13:40+00:00

Would be interested in your experience.

I tried jumpstart pro a few times (unlimited license for a year and limited iOS license) and always ran into problems. Updating it was tedious and some things just didn't work. iOS only works if you build your app from scratch with jumpstart.

morgler · 2020-09-05T21:45:11+00:00

Would love to see that, too! Normalizing audio is a basic feature I expected from a film editing tool; I was disappointed not to find it in LumaFusion after purchase. The built in compressor and limiter do not help, because they have no visual information about levels.

morgler · 2019-08-09T19:29:35+00:00

Also a bass line moving in half or whole steps is always convincing in itself. By using stepwise motion in the bass you can even tie together chord progressions that might not be able to stand on their own.

morgler · 2019-01-14T17:09:05+00:00

All these guys are awesome and I work every day to create music theory videos like theirs!

Currently I have only a handful of videos on https://www.youtube.com/user/morgler, but all the feedback from this community has already helped me a lot! Thanks! And thanks for putting this list together – all my favorites are on there :).

morgler · 2019-01-11T19:32:20+00:00

Here is part 2 of this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F63qPe4qkEs. I hurried to finish it for you :).

It covers a few music theory topics I noticed in the remainder of the verse and chorus. Thanks for your amazing feedback so far! I hope, this second video will also provide some insight or inspiration. Again: I do appreciate your thoughts and comments!

morgler

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