dev.to 05/01/2026 00:00

An Honest Review of Google Antigravity

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So, for the last year, if you wanted the best AI coding experience, you were paying $20 a month for Cursor. It’s been the king. But there is a new competitor in the ring. And yes, it’s a VS Code fork. But no, it’s not from some random startup. It’s from Google. It’s called Antigravity. And right now, during the preview, it is fully, 100% free. You get access to their newest, models like Gemini 3, full browser orchestration, and an entirely new way to manage code, without swiping a credit card. Now, usually when Google releases a developer tool, it’s either incredible or it gets killed in six months. I’ve been daily driving Antigravity for the past week, digging into the code, and honestly? It’s a bit of both. It is one of the most promising pieces of software I’ve seen this year, and also, at times, the single most frustrating editor I have ever used. We need to talk about the "Agent-First" workflow, the crazy Gemini 3 benchmarks, and the fact that this might actually just be a zombie version of another editor called Windsurf. Let’s get into it. So, first things first. If you peel back the skin, this is VS Code. If you go into the "About" section, you see the VS Code OSS version. But Google has done a lot of work to hide that. They’ve renamed "VS Code Settings" to just "Editor Settings." They’ve stripped out a lot of the familiar Microsoft branding. And interestingly, if you dig into the...
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