Google's Antigravity IDE - Still too Early

About this episode

The episode discusses the features and initial impressions of Google's Antigravity IDE, highlighting both its potential and current limitations.

I played around with the new Google Agentic IDE, Antigravity , on launch day and created a few features for an app I’ve been playing with. If you’re unfamiliar this video is a helpful overview of the features: My initial impressions offer a more nuanced experience than the chipper attitude of this presentation which should help you get a balanced perspective. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Using Antigravity Agent Manager This interface feels like a move in the right direction. It offers a means of managing the work done by an agent, ability to see and respond to plans easily, and clear indication of changes made. I like the Agent Manager’s UI but it’s been a little buggy so far. I made some good changes but it is missing some of the context I have in my CLAUDE.md files on how I wanted it to build the app. I’m not sure if it’s reading some of my core information files or docs. Knowledge The knowledge base feature looks interesting but in the two medium-sized features I created it didn’t seem to think this needed to be updated. Unsure when it will feel there’s something worth of it. As with…

Topics covered

• AI development
• Google tools
• software features
• technology review
• user experience

Keywords

• Google
• Antigravity IDE
• Agent Manager
• AI memory systems
• software development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google

Products: Antigravity IDE, Agent Manager

Books & works: CLAUDE.md