Google Antigravity: The IDE That Finally Lets Me Float Above My Code

Yesterday (November 18, 2025, mark your calendars), Google casually yeeted Antigravity into public preview like it was no big deal.

It’s a desktop IDE (VS Code fork, obviously – Microsoft’s open-source gift that keeps on giving), powered by the freshly baked Gemini 3 Pro, and designed from the ground up to be agent-first. Translation: instead of you begging Copilot to fix one tiny bug, you now have an entire squad of AI agents that can open terminals, control browsers, take screenshots, and basically do your job while you refresh Hacker News.

And yes, they named it Antigravity because apparently the code now levitates above human comprehension. Or because someone at Google remembered that old XKCD comic and thought “hold my espresso”.

So What Actually Is This Thing?

• Classic editor view (feels like Cursor had a baby with Gemini)
• A shiny new Agent Manager view that looks like NASA Mission Control for AI agents
• Agents that produce Artifacts – fancy word for “here’s a screenshot, a video walkthrough, and a 47-step plan so you can pretend you understand what I just did”
• Full browser control (yes, it can log into your banking app if you let it… please don’t)
• Asynchronous mode: tell it “build me a flight tracker that looks like it was designed in 2025” and go make tea. Come back to a working app and mild existential dread.

It’s free in preview with “generous” rate limits on Gemini 3 Pro. It also supports Claude Sonnet and some open-weight GPT thing, because Google is feeling unusually generous (or hedging their bets).

My First 30 Minutes With Antigravity (A Dramatic Re-enactment)

1. Download → install → sign in with Google account
2. “Hey Antigravity, turn my half-baked Next.js app into something that doesn’t embarrass me in production”
3. Agent spawns, starts typing, opens terminal, runs npm install, opens Chrome, googles its own documentation, takes a screenshot labeled “See? I fixed your Docker ignore”
4. I sip coffee and wonder if I still have a job
5. It finishes, leaves a polite note: “Deployed to Vercel. Here’s a video of me clicking every button to prove it works.”
6. I cry a single tear of productivity

The Funny (Terrifying) Parts

• The agents learn from past work. So the more you use it, the more it remembers that time you wrote if (user.isAdmin = true) and quietly judges you forever.
• It produces walkthrough videos of itself testing your app. My code has never been roasted this thoroughly.
• Browser control means it can literally fill out CAPTCHAs better than I can. I am become obsolete.
• Rate limits are “generous” – Google’s way of saying “we’ll throttle you eventually, but enjoy the honeymoon”.

Should You Try It?

If you:

• Hate typing
• Love watching AI do wheelies in your terminal
• Secretly want Skynet but with better UI

Then yes. Download it right now from antigravity.google (Mac, Windows, Linux).

If you still enjoy the romantic struggle of debugging at 2 a.m. with nothing but Stack Overflow and spite… well, see you on the other side, comrade.

Final Thoughts (While My Agent Writes This Conclusion For Me)

Antigravity feels like the moment we stop pretending AI is a “helper” and admit it’s the senior engineer now. I give it six months before someone uses it to build an even better IDE that puts Google out of business. Recursive doom, baby.

In the meantime, I’m going to teach my agent how to deploy Kubernetes clusters so I can finally achieve my dream of never typing kubectl again.

Stay gravity-bound, friends.
Or don’t. Apparently that’s an option now.

P.S. If anyone from Google is reading this: please add a “make coffee” tool integration next. My agent already knows how I take it. Creepy? Yes. Efficient? Absolutely.