Google’s Antigravity puts programming productivity ahead of AI hype – and the result is astonishing

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Key insights from ZDNET

• Google introduces Antigravity, a productivity-focused AI coding IDE.
• It’s based on VS Code, allowing for instant familiarity and plugin support.
• Screenshots, recordings and browser testing for Power Agent workflows.

Google today announced a new development environment for programmers called Antigravity. The company calls it “a new era in AI-powered software development.” And as I got my first look at the functionality in this video, it could very well be so. At least for some things.

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Some aspects of Antigravity are definitely amazingly good. It has some features that I think can really help advance your agent-assisted programming in a very productive way.

But let’s bring this announcement back to earth for a minute. Although the company didn’t mention this in its blog announcement or online…