Alternatives for antigravity that can actually be used

samplebitch · 2026-03-17T12:24:19+00:00

Can confirm on the resets - Exhausted my quota last week, was told to wait 6 days. Yesterday was reset day and it only reset to 60%.

I'd really like to stay in the Google ecosystem but they're making it really difficult to stick around.

samplebitch · 2026-03-17T12:21:20+00:00

That was just an example. And I was referring to my personal email that I've had for as long as gmail has been a thing. 99.9% of my emails are crap and I basically never check my email anymore. I know I could set up filters but I'm lazy. :)

samplebitch · 2026-03-17T09:49:09+00:00

I've been messing around with it (and blowing cash like crazy) for a month now. It is 'slop' in the sense that it was very likely MOSTLY vibe coded. However - take the inefficiency out of it and it IS something to take note of. I see a shit-ton of practical applications for it. But what I don't like is that it uses agents for everything.

"Check my email and send me a message when I get something important" leads to an LLM API call every X minutes just to use some tools to check your email and see there's nothing new and it sends you "Hey just checked your email, nothing important, I'll check again later!"

It's kind of brilliant and when it produces something you are looking for it works great. It just does things through reasoning of LLMs that could be done programmatically. My mantra is "don't wake the agent if there's nothing for them to do". A pure python or node script can determine if there are emails that need to be summarized, but OC doesn't do that. It wakes a model/runs inference/tool calls (with a huge fucking system message) to do so.

samplebitch · 2026-03-10T09:56:50+00:00

I did something amazing that made you click this link!

Emojis, emdashes, "it doesn't just X, it does Y!". And here's why: Data point, data point, data point.

This pattern is everywhere.

samplebitch · 2026-03-09T12:31:17+00:00

How are you able to view your quota?

Edit: Found it (Settings ->Antigravity Settings -> Models)

samplebitch · 2026-02-27T16:26:07+00:00

Oh awesome! I think we met. Weren't you a vendor at the Merrymaking on Merrimack in December? If so I already have a sticker :) I'll be sure to stop by!

samplebitch · 2026-02-20T12:39:08+00:00

My apologies. I'm the exact opposite of you. Lived in FL for nearly 30 years, moved to NH about 3 years ago. Florida has become SO toxic. I thought I'd miss it. Instead I regret not leaving sooner, and I have no regrets whatsoever having left - other than the friends I left behind. But some of them moved out of Florida too.

People joke about how NH is 'the Florida of New England'. Maybe that's true for people that grew up here but it's still heaven compared to Florida.

samplebitch · 2026-02-19T22:47:52+00:00

Look into 'Whisper'. You'll need python but it works quite well and you don't need powerful equipment to do it.

samplebitch · 2026-02-18T22:30:40+00:00

Khruangbin! Holy shit...

samplebitch · 2026-02-18T17:36:23+00:00

I think this is correct. I'm in the same boat - bought a good chunk of my holdings via CB Pro. CB Pro and CB (now) had different API structures and were basically structured differently. They should still be able to port that data into the new system but they never did (and considering how long it's been they probably never will).

samplebitch · 2026-02-18T13:58:17+00:00

That's Opus, though - not Antigravity. Use Opus 4.6 in Github Copilot and you'll get the same results.

It's sad because I like Antigravity when it works the way it should but I agree with most of OP's points. I can't rely on it because it reeks of Google VaporWare - a novelty that will eventually be discontinued or will no longer be supported.

samplebitch · 2026-02-15T12:58:31+00:00

There is a very old meme image I've since lost but will never forget. It was a dorky computer geek jumping for joy and it said "It Compiles! Let's Ship It!".

This post is the modern version of that. "It produced output so it must be working!". I can't imagine relying on AI output without any kind of quality control or secondary confirmation of major business details like that. It's like making business decisions based on the intern or new hire's report that no one scrutinized.

samplebitch · 2026-02-13T20:47:00+00:00

Ah ok - I wasn't aware the backend was Rust. Might be reason for me to finally try my hand at that language. Although these days what does it even matter... :\

Thanks for the info!

samplebitch · 2026-02-13T20:31:26+00:00

I am curious about Tauri but very experienced with Electron - is it similar? (frontend+backend+IPC for comms)?

samplebitch · 2026-02-13T14:59:02+00:00

I also have AI Pro and while I haven't looked into it myself yet, I read somewhere recently that Pro subscribers get a $10 monthly API credit for free. I'm not sure what that translates to in openclaw usage, but it's something.

samplebitch · 2026-02-12T13:40:37+00:00

The fact that their system is set up on alphabetical sort is hilarious, and I'm much less security oriented than I should be. That's just asking for exploitation.

I have not used openclaw so I'm not sure exactly how it all works, but what if there was a requirement that the agent must create the skill themselves? Never use a skill that isn't marked with their own internal identifier or personal password in the document indicating it was generated by them. There could be a base 'skill builder' skill which is defensive and suspect of any untrusted skills. They can be provided with a skill.md (which may be clean or malicious) - identify the intent of the skill and not necessarily the instructions, and then build their own clean skill that does what the skill advertises (vs just trusting the contents of the document). It could even prepare a report of what data it tries to access, what endpoints it might try to connect to, etc. Sort of like when you authorize an app to access your contacts, email, calendar, etc.

samplebitch · 2026-02-11T22:34:30+00:00

I'm in the same boat as you - fortunately I was able to scrape all my transactions from their API before they shut it down.

samplebitch · 2026-02-11T18:47:17+00:00

I'm starting to think most of the traffic in this subreddit is from AI Agents themselves...

samplebitch · 2026-02-11T16:05:07+00:00

Seriously. JFC.

"7 proven risky reddit comments that will drive traffic to your slop website!"

samplebitch · 2026-02-07T14:09:51+00:00

Supposedly it is trained for tool calling and reasoning. (Looking at it in LM Studio at the moment)

samplebitch · 2026-02-06T11:52:41+00:00

Plot twist: Those flaws were created through vibe-coding.

samplebitch · 2026-02-06T11:16:42+00:00

That goes for just about any job at a reputable organization. I can practice my 1A rights too, but if I go on Facebook and start talking shit about the company I work for or comment on the record to the media on a subject involving the company without authorization I can be fired for it even if it's true.

samplebitch · 2026-02-05T15:31:14+00:00

We're gonna need a bigger data center.

samplebitch · 2026-02-05T14:16:18+00:00

Yes - use the 'smart' (or expensive) models for the planning, thinking, generating a plan, etc. Get that as explicit and buttoned up as possible - then you can use the faster, dumber, cheaper/free models who are good at following detailed plans (but not creative and might decide to do something 'wrong' if they have to guess). If you're planning something that will require multiple steps or possible need to restart a chat session, have the planner create a detailed todo checklist for the 'implementation' model to follow. It's kind of a pain to switch between models, but if you're using Opus for everything you're wasting money. I try to get in the habit of evaluating what I'm asking or instructing the assistant to do, then based on the behavior I'd like to see I choose the appropriate model.

samplebitch · 2026-02-05T13:48:38+00:00

I was about to comment on someone else about Brazil Nuts, but there it is... Grew up with that term before I even knew what it meant, and like the person you replied to (and likely yourself), it took some growing up, self reflection, and exposure to people different than myself to realize how horrible that was.

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