My Experience Using Google Antigravity: The AI-Native IDE That Feels Like the Future
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Google just dropped Antigravity, its new AI-native development environment built around real, autonomous agents — and after spending time with it, I can confidently say: this isn’t another “AI assistant in your editor.” This feels like a shift in how software gets built.
This is my hands-on experience.
Explore Antigravity here: 🔗 https://antigravity.google
The Setup: Surprisingly Light for Something This Powerful
Antigravity installs like a normal IDE, but immediately feels different. You get an Editor View, a Manager View for multiple agents, an integrated browser, and a task timeline of 'Artifacts'—a complete record of agent actions. The UI is clean, fast, and minimal.
Lightweight & Powerful
A minimal UI with maximum capability.
Agents Don’t “Assist” — They Work
Unlike other AI tools that offer autocomplete or suggestions, Antigravity agents take on tasks like a junior engineer. Give it a prompt, and it creates a plan, executes commands, tests flows in the browser, writes files, and shows you logs, screenshots, and reasoning.
Autonomous Execution
Delegating work, not just getting suggestions.
Artifacts: The Heart of the Trust Model
Every significant step an agent takes—plans, code diffs, browser recordings, terminal logs—becomes a traceable 'Artifact'. This provides automatic documentation and makes reviewing changes ridiculously easy, answering what the agent did and why.
Manager View: Multi-Agent Workflow Without Chaos
Switch to Manager View to turn the IDE into a project command center. You can spawn multiple agents, assign different subtasks, and track their parallel progress in real-time. It’s the first time multi-agent development has felt practical.
Parallel Development
Orchestrate multiple agents working in unison.
Performance & Model Quality: Gemini 3 Shines
Optimized for Gemini 3 Pro, the code is cleaner, tool use is smarter, and refactoring is safer. An agent fixed a logic bug in under a minute that would typically take a human developer 20-30 minutes, complete with an explanation and a new test.
Extremely Competent
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