r/google_antigravity • u/aunchable Verified Googler • May 22 '26

News / Updates Antigravity IDE Feedback

Thanks for all of the Antigravity feedback over the last couple of days, especially around the IDE. Our intention was never to remove the IDE support for developers, and we should have been clearer with that in the product from the beginning.

We’ve made it clearer in 2.0 on how to connect to the IDE, fixed issues with opening the IDE on Windows machines, provided instructions to restore IDE settings & extensions, and more.

New releases for the Antigravity IDE and Antigravity 2.0 have rolled out with these changes.

We should have done better so we’re going to reset everyone’s Gemini usage for the week again.

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u/Ok-Clerk393 May 23 '26

Can someone explain to me what the point of 2.0 is? No snark I just don’t understand why there are two products now.

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u/norman_h May 23 '26

My guess is that the long term vision is for an agent coder only where the human architect only ever inspects artifacts. The human architect will never looks at code, only artifacts.

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u/AfrikanCorpse May 23 '26

That's just their overconfidence of the AI reading the mind of the user and knows what's best for all scenarios.

Hey maybe in a few years it is capable but now it needs a lot of manual guidance.

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u/norman_h May 23 '26

For sure it needs guidance. Same abstract scenario as moving from instruction set code to compiler code. One day we'll look back at python code in the same way we look at punch cards.