Comment by brap
12 hours ago
People have been sleeping on Gemini lately but these last few Flash releases (which were very rapid) are damn good.
These sort of fast and cheap models are great for tasks that are verifiable and can be retried infinitely (like coding), you can basically get frontier results with a good harness (at a fraction of the time and money).
As someone who has stubbornly stuck with Claude Code, what's a good harness for Gemini models?
I resisted at first but now I main antigravity for work. All the software (web, react-native app, client cms platform, postgres backed, multiple ETL systems, a few chat/websocket backends) for my company is loaded into a single project. I spend time writing prompts and forming plans back and forth with the agents then I click GO. Over the past year we've gone from it taking minutes and needing a reasonable amount of back and forth and fixing, to it taking 10-20 seconds and outputting near perfect work within my system accross app/service boundaries.
I highly recommend just getting out of Anthropic's (or anyone's) vendor lock-in. Use opencode or pi. You can still use your subscription pricing using a proxy. I switched to opencode and haven't looked back.
How do you do the proxy thing?
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Antigravity is probably the best of the bunch I've tried. I'd say it's pretty comparable to Claude Code (I use both daily).
Antigravity which lacks an auto approve mode? Not really comparable to Claude Code when you're looking to run a team of agents from my experience.
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Just like Claude Code and others it has the same —-dangerously-skip-permissions flag, auto approves everything
The vscode chat is great. Not sure if it's also called copilot, but you can plug in any models there and they get sandboxed, tools and link to your code. Great stuff.
Pi [1] is amazing. Since using it I've felt no need to switch harnesses anymore.
Or choose Oh My PI [2] for batteries included
[1] https://github.com/earendil-works/pi [2] https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi
Can you use Pi with a Google Pro AI sub or do you need to use API billing?
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Crush is great: https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush
You can use any model with Claude Code. Most chinese one have a Anthropic compatible endpoint and for Google and OpenAI's models you can get a compatible endpoint with a proxy like Bifrost. No need to change your harness.
Antigravity has been also rapidly improving lately, and your can also use any of the open coding harnesses. But I mostly meant “harness” as in your workflow/loop setup.
Is that possible? What subscription would that be? 'Google AI Plus'?
Do they officially support you using your subscription in other harnesses?
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Is antigravity still heavily rate limited?