[ddp26]

This whole blog post is seemingly about Google, not about the user. "Why We Built Antigravity" etc. "We want Antigravity to be the home base for software development in the era of agents" - cool, why would I as the user care about that?

[wiseowise]

You wouldn’t. It’s made to suck out investor money and show that google does something, not to actually bring value.

My crystal ball says it will be shutdown next year.

[evandrofisico]

Most of the AI products are not for the end user, they are just signaling shareholders and possible investors that the company is on the hype.

[meowface]

I know Google is quick to shut things down but these ultra-cynical ultra-skeptical HN takes are so tiresome at this point.

[crazygringo]

Investor money?

Google is highly profitable. It's not looking for investment, it's the one investing.

Maybe you are confusing it with OpenAI?

[rishabhd]

funny my magic 8 ball says the same thing!

[tnolet]

After using Google AI studio, Google Vertex, and Google Gemini Chat I honestly can't wait to use Google Antigravity!

edit: Also Jules...

snark off:

I think the Google PMs should have coffee together and see if all of this sprawl makes any sense.

[koakuma-chan]

It does?

Google AI studio is their developer dashboard.

Google Vertex is their equivalent of Amazon Bedrock.

Google Gemini Chat is their ChatGPT app for normies.

Google Antigravity is their Cursor equivalent.

[dygd]

The also launched a coding agent Jules: https://jules.google/

[karel-3d]

Wasn't there something called Bard at some point?

[k1rd]

you forgot jules

[jimbokun]

Great point!

Remember took my a while early in my career from changing my resume away from saying "I want to do this at my next job and make a lot of money" and towards "here is how I can make money and save costs for your company".

Google didn't learn that lesson here. They are describing why us using Antigravity is good for Google, not why us using Antigravity is good for us.

[layer8]

More accurately, it should be neither about Google nor about the user, but about the product. Describe what the product is and does, don’t make assumptions about the user, and let the user be the judge of it.

[DoomDestroyer]

I swear most of these pages is to sell this to companies so they can force it onto developers.

The whole webpage looks like something from Apple.

[hereme888]

All these companies were built by self-referential narcissists, and it seems to be their culture at the core.