Antigravity 2.0 is a complete trash. Google literally deleted the IDE to force "Vibe Coding" on us, and I’m losing my mind.
This is my first time posting on Reddit, but I am so incredibly furious right now that I needed to find a place to vent because Google just pulled the most brain-dead, out-of-touch corporate move I have ever witnessed.
I opened up Antigravity today to actually get work done, and my entire workflow is completely fucked. Google just dropped the 2.0 update, and they did the most insane thing imaginable: they completely stripped out the built in VS Code text editor engine. It is no longer an IDE. It’s a glorified, bloated, hands off "Agent Manager" dashboard.
Right now, I am looking at a screen that has absolutely zero code visibility. I cannot see my file tree, I cannot type code manually, and I cannot review diffs simultaneously. Instead, Google is forcing this aggressive, autonomous "AI First" garbage down our throats where the model spins up a hidden git worktree in the background, does whatever the hell it wants behind a closed curtain, and expects me to just sit there like an idiot, look at an empty chat panel, "vibe code," and blindly trust whatever the agent claims it's doing.
To make matters worse, I am a paying Pro user, and this shit is actively burning through my paid tokens. If I want to make a tiny, simple change something I could easily type out myself in two fucking seconds, I am now forced to invoke an entire background agent task. Because I don't have a clear, full view of my files, I have to burn a massive amount of token context just to let the AI figure out what to change. It is an expensive, forced tax on basic manual labor.
The UI/UX is an absolute joke. It is easily the worst, most detached layout I've ever seen. The "agent split window" only shows a microscopic, isolated view of exactly what it decided to change. What if I need to open a completely different configuration file or fix a dependency across a separate folder while working? I can't. You are completely blind to your own codebase unless you let the AI hold your hand through a chat prompt.
Who the fuck thought stripping out a developer's eyes and hands was a good idea? I am an engineer. I don't want an AI manager wrestling the keyboard away from me and hiding the code state. I want absolute control over my workspace. I want to see my lines of code, handle file navigation, and look at exactly what is changing under the hood in real-time. This level of forced automation is a complete recipe for a massive, unreviewable technical debt disaster.
Right now, Ctrl + E is completely dead because the editor binaries literally aren't even in the app anymore. My only choice to get actual manual control back is to minimize this piece of trash chat console and dual-wield it alongside a standard, separate instance of VS Code, or completely wipe 2.0 and risk destroying my local configs to downgrade.
Look, nobody is disputing that these new frontier models and agents are insanely powerful. When used right, they increase productivity tenfold. They are fast, they are smart, but they drink tokens like absolute rain in a desert. Google has the tech to do incredible things with this architecture which makes it even more insulting that they wasted it on this absolute piece of garbage layout. Instead of giving us a high-powered, precise tool where we steer the ship, they built an out-of-touch corporate dashboard that burns through your paid credits just to hide your own codebase from you. Fix the goddamn app and give us back our editor panels.