I Tried Google Antigravity - It Sucked (Public Board)

by FSK, Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 23:38 (15 hours, 2 minutes ago)

I decided to give Google Antigravity a try. It was awful.

I had it set to strictest permissions, ask for everything.

It kept trying to invoke node.js. I don't have node.js installed on my PC. It burned through 1/3 of my free quota trying to invoke node.js.

It burned the rest of my quota trying to invoke Python. I do have Python on my PC and told it the path. It kept failing.

My task was getting an implementation of text-to-image using an API call using Google's library. It made a whole bunch of mistakes.

1. The consumer and enterprise API have different features. It was giving me enterprise code but I have consumer.

2. Google deprecates and removes its APIs every few months. It was coding to a deprecated API.

3. Google gives you zero images on free tier, so it never would have worked anyway even if I got finished.

I uninstalled antigravity. Maybe I'll give it a try again in a year or two.

The editor was buggy. The installer said "you should install as user not administrator". Then when I ran it, it said "cannot auto-update, must be installed as administrator".

On the GUI, you could change the permission levels, but it didn't remember the choice after you closed the dialog.

Such basic errors made it look like nobody ever tried seriously using it.


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