I do not believe that Google Antigravity is aimed at wooing investors. I believe it is intended to be a genuine superior alternative to Cursor and Kiro etc. and is attempting to provide the best AI coding experience for the average developer.

Most of the other people (so far) in this sub-thread do not think this. They essentially have a conspiratorial view on it.

> I do not believe that Google Antigravity is aimed at wooing investors.

There is no evidence to support any other motive.

Any experienced (as in, 10+ years) developer knows better than to trust google with dev tools.

What dev tools has Google shut down?

Colab is still going strong. Chrome inspector is still going strong.

They've never released a full-fledged IDE before, have they? Which I don't count Apps Script editor as one, but that's been around for a long time as well.

I think it's much more likely that Google believes this is the future of development and wants to get in on the ground floor. As they should.

> Google believes this is the future of development

This is hardly possible as this is definitely not the future of development which is obvious to developers who created this. Or to any developer for that matter.

This is a stakeholders' feature.

This worldview is so bizarre and uncharitable that I'd be rather concerned to hear what any of your takes on politics might be.

I've played with Antigravity for the past 48 hours for lots of different tasks. Is it revolutionizing development for me? No. Do I think they want it to do that and are working extremely hard to try to achieve that? I think the answer is very obviously: of course. Will it maybe get closer to that within a few months or a year? Maybe.

Agree to disagree, I guess. What you think is obvious, I think is false. And I think the rapidly growing success of Cursor is the proof of that. But I guess you must think Cursor is just a fad or something, since you don't see why Google would want to legitimately compete with it?

Cursor is obviously a fad (unlike Copilot - I'm not at all an AI hater, quite the opposite) and perhaps Google needs to present something to shareholders that will pretend to be competing.

None of that matters for actual development work.

Well, just so you know, there are lots of us who think Cursor is not a fad, and see that Google realizes this as well, and is genuinely competing with it.

A lot of people find it's actually quite valuable for "actual development work". If you want to ignore all that, then I guess go ahead.

But just know that what you're claiming is "obvious", is clearly not. There seems to be large disagreement over it, so it is objectively not obvious, but rather quite debatable.

Isn't it great that in this case we don't have to fight because the judgment of history will reveal itself quite soon on that matter, right? :-)

I wish I could save this comment in a way that we would both come back to it in 10 years ;)

!remindme 5 years

Cursor is very obviously not a fad (Copilot I'd say actually is!), nor are any of the Cursor clones/competitors. Of course it matters very much for actual development work. I feel like everything you're writing in this sub-thread is essentially the opposite of what exists in reality.

I would say it's the opposite. I believe there is zero evidence to support your allegation.

> I do not believe that Google Antigravity is aimed at wooing investors.

I think the comment you’re replying to was addressing the “shutting down” part, not the “investors” part.

exactly.

also i was alluding to the way their promotion policy encourages people to start rather than maintain projects.