I have a confession to make to Google 😡
First off, let's start by complaining. Google has a ton of money, they have the employees, and also high-performance AIs that their employees can use... but they completely botched their work.
Here is a breakdown of the major issues with the recent transition.
1. The Botched Transition to Antigravity 2.0
First, they pissed off the community with the update. Before, Antigravity was an IDE with an agent manager, but they switched to a split system: **Antigravity IDE** \+ **Antigravity 2.0** *(which allows using AI agents to do tasks and launch multiple agents in parallel)*.
The problem is that they overwrote the old Antigravity (which was mainly an IDE) with the new 2.0, which offers general usage. Users didn't understand why; they simply thought: *"Antigravity isn't an IDE anymore"*.
2. Disastrous Data Migration
Moreover, they didn't prepare the migration of user data and configurations. Since it used to be an all-in-one tool and now it's two separate pieces of software, users lost their configs. The IDE's folder changed from `.antigravity` to `.antigravity ide`.
It's really shameful for a tech giant like Google to not even inform their users about this architectural change.
3. Data Inheritance Bugs
Next, the new generalist agent tool inherited data from the old IDE. Surprise: it doesn't interpret it like the IDE but in a completely different way, which creates weird bugs!
* We end up with conversation titles filled with `%`. * We get a multitude of workspaces (folders where we work) under the same name (e.g., `Siteweb1`, `siteweb2`) with scattered conversations.
I managed to fix all that even though it took a long time, but not everyone has my technical background, and they won't know how to fix it.
4. A Glaring Lack of Quality Assurance
Seriously, it's infuriating coming from Google. Even me, a 2nd-year student (although I've been in the IT world since I was 6), when I build software, even following the TDD (Test-Driven Development) methodology, I create AI agents that test the software on a GUI and make sure there are **0 bugs** before shipping.
Sure, for me it's expensive, but Google is a conglomerate; it would cost them jack shit to do that. This negligence is really annoying.
Other Major Frustrations
🐧 Linux Abandoned: For Linux, they didn't even bother updating the repositories. You have to download the packages and install them manually. Plus, they forgot the Antigravity icons in the packages. To think they didn't do an update for a whole month... What did the Antigravity team do during that month?
👁️ Visual Navigation Removed: The visual navigation tool that opened a Chrome instance and used the UI has been removed (well, it's still hidden in the files). You can't use it naturally anymore; you have to use the `Devtool-chrome` debugging tool instead. Furthermore, the agent can no longer use it automatically; you are forced to trigger it yourself with a `/...` command. It's a shame because with the old one, we could directly watch what the agent was doing. In my opinion, they should have kept both.
🧠 AI Model Management: The **Gemini 3 Flash** model was removed. It's a pity, it was good, fast, and above all cheaper for certain recurring tasks; Google should bring it back. Additionally, **Gemini 3.5 Flash** isn't really a "flash" model economically speaking. Let me explain: for the exact same task, Gemini 3.5 Flash uses 1.3 to 1.5 times *more* tokens than 3.1 Pro. Ultimately, for the same task, it can cost 1.7 times more than Gemini 3.1 Pro!
The Quot@ Situation
I imagine you've noticed, but our quot@s are shared between Antigravity CLI, Antigravity IDE, and Antigravity 2.0. Luckily, the Antigravity team and Google know how to multiply. Varun Mohan recently announced that our quot@s were multiplied by 3:
>*"An update: we’re 3xing the rate lim$ts for Gemini models across all paid tiers in Antigravity and resetting everyone’s Gemini quot@ for the week. We understand some people hit their rate lim&ts quickly and wanted to respond fast. Lots more to come and enjoy building!"*
Conclusion
Anyway. That's all I had to say. Antigravity has insane potential, but right now, it is neglected. It pisses me off because I'm a huge Google fan.