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I just want to say thanks to Varun for actively listening and improving Antigravity step by step.

After the recent Antigravity changes, it honestly felt like Google had almost destroyed what made AG great in the first place. The 1 month silence from April to May, severe outages, no updates, the sudden I/O, forced update, the IDE situation, the model usage changes, and the overall confusion made a lot of people lose trust very quickly.

Varun has been actively listening, replying, fixing things, and slowly bringing AG back in the right direction. That deserves recognition.

A few things I’d still love to see improved:

1. Separate usage pools for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 3.1 Pro should be the daily workhorse, while Pro should be reserved for harder tasks. Mixing them together makes it feel like using Flash punishes your Pro availability.
2. Bring back Gemini 3 Flash It had a really good balance of speed, quality, and reliability. For a lot of agentic coding tasks, it felt more predictable and a lot faster and cheaper than the current setup.
3. Terminal access in Antigravity 2.0 AG 2.0 is promising, but without proper terminal usage it still feels incomplete for real development workflows.

Despite the frustration, I appreciate seeing someone from the team actually communicating and improving things instead of pretending nothing happened.

Hope Varun (and hopefully his team) gets more influence inside Google’s AI & dev tools. AG still has huge potential.

Edit: 3 Flash, not 3.1 Flash.

Straight to the point.

The Good

You can still keep the old Antigravity IDE together with the new Antigravity 2.0, even though the upgrade flow is buggy.

If you upgraded and did not select the option to keep/install the IDE, you may need to uninstall both, install the IDE first, and then install 2.0 after that.

They can also run at the same time, even with different accounts, which is actually pretty useful.

And honestly, Antigravity 2.0 with Gemini 3.5 Flash is impressive. Really impressive. It is fast, it understands context very well, and it often catches what you are trying to do with very little hand-holding.

The weird part is that you no longer feel fully in control. That takes some getting used to. But when it works, it works really well.

The Bad

Yesterday, Gemini 3.5 Flash had very generous available usage.

Today, not so much.

It feels much tighter now. With a Pro account, a few minutes of actual work can burn through the available usage completely. That is extremely frustrating, because the model is good enough that you actually want to use it.

It also feels strange that there is no real fallback inside Antigravity. Gemini 3.5 Flash is doing the heavy lifting, but the name is misleading. This does not feel like “Flash” at all.

It probably should have been called something like Gemini 3.5 Ultra Lite, while keeping the old Flash available.

Use 3.5 for planning, architecture, and reasoning. Use regular Flash for execution and smaller edits. That would make way more sense.

The Ugly

Yesterday, the available usage seemed to be separated between Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Pro Low, and Gemini 3.5 Flash.

If you burned through one, you could still use the others.

Now it looks like they all share the same access pool.

That is the worst possible change.

The irony is that you can be using Google’s own agentic IDE and still end up being forced back to Claude or GPT OSS after a few minutes because the access pool dries up so fast.

And honestly, I am not even sure why GPT OSS is still there instead of something like Kimi 2.6.

Authentication was also a mess. I had trouble getting through Google login, and I saw several other people with the same problem.

For Pro and Ultra users, this feels bad. No proper warning, unclear changes to available usage, forced upgrade behavior, login issues, and a product that feels rushed out before it was ready.

It really does feel like this was pushed out just so Google had something to show around I/O.

Final Thoughts

Antigravity 2.0 is genuinely exciting. The old IDE is also still great. There is a real product here.

But right now, I do not know if it is actually usable as a daily tool.

The potential is obvious. That is what makes it so frustrating.

It needs better transparency around available usage, better fallback models, better upgrade handling, and someone making clearer product decisions.