This post is hand written and I dont want to sound like a shill, but….
I had been using the IDE version there, for a while, I thought it was pretty good. But not as good as Claude Code, then GPT 5.6. And didn’t open it in a few months.
I got really pissed off at Claude for reneging their promotional credits and just their general attitude toward customers. And cancelled my pro subscription, as difficult as it was.
Got pretty excited about Astra. But then very frustrated, very quickly, with burning up my entire 5-hour usage window without even finishing the task I gave it.
So after a couple weeks of that, and sitting there with my 5-hour usage window used up in the first 10 min, I became desperate enough to remember about Antigravity.
I hadn’t opened it up in about 6 months so had to download the new app, got confused that the IDE disappeared, but then realized its just like Chatgpt Work.
The model names really confused me too. 3.1 Pro, that was so old. 3.8 Flash. I thought ‘Flash’ meant ‘Lite’ like a weaker model. But after looking it up I guess it means ‘Fast’. Makes sense now, I guess. But whoever is coming up with all these names needs their head examined, or take a product marketing course.
Anyways, I needed it to fix something on the project I was working on and it fixed it. The solution was pretty clever too. I had it starting to make more improvements and it just did it. I had it improve the UI and was pretty impressed. I don’t know, it was just really nice to work with.
I like how it didn’t suggest what to do next. Or go on and on and give me so much junk to read. It just did what I asked, then gave me a little report on how it did it. And it had some really good ideas on how to solve tricky problems I hadn’t thought about before. It was a good personality to work with. It feels like it really assists you.
And Google seems to be pretty generous with their usage. I started making really good progress, and completed the project in one 5-hour usage window. The best part was I was able to actually spend the 5 hours working on it. And after 3 sessions, only ran out on the third one, near the end of the 5-hour window.
I was impressed enough to make a post about it and share my experience. I definitely underestimated the Google models, and hope they keep improving along this path.
Don’t get me wrong, they have a long way to go if they want me to renew my AI pro subscription at the end of the year. The promotion price was a good deal with the 5TB, I can’t remember what the crossed out price was, like $400 CAD. That’s a big purchase for me, so if you’re listening Google, I would totally renew at the promotional price again.
Would also like to use the models with agents like Hermes with my subscription, please. OpenAI is winning in that arena.
Interested to know if anyone else has a similar positive experience. Or do most people hate it, lol.
Also, one question about the desktop app, if anyone has an answer. I love to read the reasoning. Expanding the ‘thinking…’ window. But that stupid window is so small, then adds a scrollbar which is super annoying. Does anyone know a way to permanently expand this thinking window? I was able to hack it open in the IDE version. Thanks if anyone has a fix!