You decide the title for this post. i am not creative enough
Google is the first company I’ve seen actively replace stable products with objectively worse ones in a clearly provable and visible way.
Opened GitHub today and saw Gemini CLI getting retired for Antigravity CLI. Absolute downgrade.
And the funniest part? Gemini CLI was actually GOOD. Stable, lightweight, predictable, clear token usage, clear limits, proper TUI, no unnecessary AI-slop UX. It worked because Google open sourced it and developers naturally shaped it into something usable.
Meanwhile Antigravity has been unstable from the very beginning, and the 2.0 update somehow made everything worse.
People couldn’t log in.
Projects generated hundreds of duplicate folders.
Ctrl+C wouldn’t exit a CLI tool.
Basic developer workflows were missing.
Git operations felt nonexistent.
The VS Code fork got split into this weird unusable AI workspace trying to imitate Codex while not even reaching the “C” in Codex.
How does a company with Google’s level of talent, money, infrastructure, and research consistently ship developer tools that feel less polished than products built by tiny startups?
Cursor feels more mature.
Claude Code feels more mature.
Codex feels more mature.
OpenCode feels more mature.
Even random community-made agent orchestrators feel more usable.
on top of that you cant use their subscription products on 3rd party tools. they'll chase you with the ban hammer.
How are third-party developers understanding developer workflows better than GOOGLE?
Do the teams inside Google even use their own products daily?
Because these decisions genuinely feel like they were made by people who have never worked through a real production development workflow.
The most painful part is that Gemini CLI already solved these problems. It was peaceful to use. Simple. Fast. Stable. Transparent.
And Antigravity somehow manages to make Gemini models feel worse than they actually are. Even the context handling feels artificially crippled compared to the actual capabilities of the models.
Google should genuinely be embarrassed shipping developer tools in this state. Google also just robbed the good gemini quota we used to get in gemini cli. Robbed it totally.
At this point I completely understand why developers are moving toward Chinese AI companies and open ecosystems instead. At least those companies ship products that feel tested before release instead of replacing working tools with AI-generated UX experiments. F u google. Atleast chinese subscriptions (and a specific developer friendly US company) lets you use their subscription with the tool you like. As an investor (tiny) at Alphabet this makes me worried as well.