Comment by ctippett
3 days ago
I never really used the Antigravity IDE, but had it installed. The update also made me do a double take and wonder what the hell was going on.
It seems like Google is hitting the reset button on the product they call "Antigravity", existing users be damned. Fine, if you've never installed or used the previous version before... but for existing users the "bait and switch" is incredibly disorientating.
My take is they saw the market size for a general agentic tool as being larger and more significant than a specialised IDE. It shows a pretty large lack of respect for users in the later group though.
You can't use Antigravity 2.0 on Windows with WSL. There is simply no way to connect to WSL. The agent can't run any Linux commands.
Also the Antigravity CLI doesn't remember your credentials in WSL. It asks you to log in every time you run the program.
And after 4 chat sessions, my ~/antigravity-server folder now takes up 4 GB.
It only stores credentials in the keyring, so if you have no dbus keyring service running it just silently won't remember them.
Should be usable with ssh port forwarding?
They could just call it anything else and left the existing user alone. I mean they have gemini CLI, which I would say a better product.
Gemini CLI is being sunsetted in mid-June and replaced by Antigravity.
https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transi...
I've mostly avoided the frustration of dealing with google's product rug pulls over the years by never getting hooked on a non-gmail product.
Alas, I now feel the sting of disappointment.
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I assume this means a CLI tool is no longer covered by a Gemini subscription?
> I mean they have gemini CLI
Uhhh, about that :)
Gemini CLI (the open source cli) is being deprecated, and the recommended replacement is Antigravity CLI (which supposedly comes with the new Antigravity, not the IDE). shrug. Surely this will be maintained long term...
Oh, but you can only install the new antigravity CLI by first installing and authenticating via the IDE.
Will they make it work headless before the June deadline when they turn off gemini-cli? I guess we'll see...
[Edited to add: danielbln below is correct, this appears to just be stale documentation for antigravity-cli, it can be used completely headless now.]
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I think that's what everyone is going to think.
Hot take: At least they're ripping the bandaid now instead of stringing users along and eventually abandoning it like they normally do.
That's the issue with Google, no specific user group is significant enough for Google to care
Classic Google problem: nobody gets promoted for maintaining anything. Promotions require doing Something Big. Convince everybody that your new feature is so much better than the old experience that it’s worthy of nuking the old experience, and that’s evidence that your New Thing is more worthy of you getting promoted. That’s how shit like this happens at Google.
Sometimes I wonder if they even realize they have users...
Jules is still alive.
https://jules.google.com
>Note on Plan Availability
>Paid Jules plans are accessed via a Google AI Plans subscription, which is currently available only for individual Google Accounts (ending in @gmail.com).
>We are actively working on providing upgrade paths for other user types. In the meantime, If you are a business power user and need more access to Jules, please fill out this interest form and we will get back to you.
I filled out the enterprise form for GWorkspace 18 months ago.
Which somewhat ironically can import from github but not directly from aistudio..
It's a little crazy they still depend on microsoft as an intermediate between all their tools.
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I trie to use it, it's actually really bad IMO. It's very slow and often completely misunderstands my requirements
> Jules is not yet available in your region.
Pissing off the segment of people most likely to take offense and try to take revenge seems pretty dumb.
No wonder they are losing massively to Huawei in several markets. Mobile marketshare is probably an indicator of some kind of their future prospects.
> Mobile marketshare is probably an indicator of some kind of their future prospects.
I don't like Google either, but I don't think this is a fair comparison.
It's easy for anyone to beat Google in China when the state has decided to block their servers.
They are declining in market share in several countries. Notably multiple ASEAN countries, Russia and Iran (though that is forced), and so on.
Edit: Probably the high end non apple market in nearly all African countries too, but idk if there is reliable data for those.