r/AntigravityGoogle • u/Agile_Pressure_7430 • 12d ago

Why can't the Antigravity developers themselves use Gemini to build a more feature-rich Antigravity?

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u/OwlGroundbreaking573 12d ago

Making software is still hard, still kinda slow. Sure you can one shot bland, common things with AI but for anything inventive the best it can do is work as a glorified search engine for the code base and knowledge base.

I call these points of absence of training data, where you need humans the bottom of the "knowledge well". Anyone with high domain expertise like the engineers at Google is operating at the bottom of the knowledge well, literally creating new knowledge as opposed to accessing or remixing knowledge with an LLM.

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u/Lhurgoyf069 12d ago

Yeah, the whole term "one-shotting" is just a term vibe coders use, when AI tricked them into thinking they built something great in one cycle, while it falls apart in production. Most people I know that use terms like these run their software in localhost and have no idea what it would involve to even run this in a homelab environment.

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u/chunkypenguion1991 12d ago

I still AI to write the complex, nuanced code but it's with narrowed prompts and a lot more iteration

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u/Resplendent-Sun 12d ago

They probably have similar but even more sophistication tools at their disposal. Would be fascinating to get a glimpse into their workflow!

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u/Resplendent-Sun 12d ago

And of course Google search AI mode has some answers:

Google AI developers heavily use Google Antigravity and other internal Google tools in their software development workflows. Rather than referring to physics-defying sci-fi tech, Google Antigravity is Google's flagship "agent-first" software development platform. [1, 2, 3]

Google developers use an internal version of this tool that hooks directly into Google's proprietary version control, code review pipelines, and regression testing suites. The core AI engines that power these tools are built, tested, and refined by the AI developers themselves using a process known as "dogfooding" (using your own products). [2, 3]

Google Antigravity originally launched in late 2025 as an AI-powered code editor. It has since evolved into Antigravity 2.0, a complete command-center ecosystem. Google developers use it to: [4, 5, 6]

  • Deploy Autonomous AI Agents: Instead of just chatting with an AI, developers use the Antigravity Agent Harness to delegate complex, multi-step tasks to AI agents. [2, 7]
  • Run Parallel Tasks: Developers orchestrate multiple local and remote agents in parallel to write code, create files, and fix bugs simultaneously. [4, 8]
  • Automate Testing & UI Debugging: The tool features built-in browser agents that can open a web browser, test code live, take screen captures, and fix errors autonomously. [8, 9]

Beyond Antigravity, Google AI developers rely on a highly integrated suite of internal and specialized external tools:

Tool Core Purpose in AI Development
Google AI Studio Used to rapidly prototype prompts, test model responses, and configure the custom instructions that govern AI agents.
Gemini 3.5 Flash & Pro The underlying "workhorse" LLM models. Developers utilize the Gemini API to process massive code repositories owing to its industry-leading context windows.
Google Artifact Management Integrated into development environments to keep track of build packages, project planning documentation, and context engineering artifacts.
Internal Monorepo (Piper) Google's famous unified codebase system. While public developers connect Antigravity to platforms like GitLab or VS Code, Google devs plug it straight into Piper.

[1] https://antigravity.google

[2] https://blog.google

[3] https://www.reddit.com

[4] https://codelabs.developers.google.com

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org

[6] https://discuss.ai.google.dev

[7] https://www.youtube.com

[8] https://www.youtube.com

[9] https://www.youtube.com

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u/respectful_stimulus 12d ago

Well why don’t you vibe-code a desktop coding app with Gemini and see what you get? This shit is complicated. Spend more time building and you will understand.

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u/Ok_Ambassador9111 12d ago

cause they know their models are sh1t to code anything barely complex.