--- title: Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch | daily.dev description: Google's Antigravity tool silently replaced itself via a background update at I/O 2026, swapping out the full IDE for a new Codex-style conversational chatbot... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-antigravity-bait-and-switch-xlidltk1s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch | daily.dev og:description: Google's Antigravity tool silently replaced itself via a background update at I/O 2026, swapping out the full IDE for a new Codex-style conversational chatbot... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-antigravity-bait-and-switch-xlidltk1s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XlIDLTK1S.png og:image:alt: Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Google's Antigravity tool silently replaced itself via a background update at I/O 2026, swapping out the full IDE for a new Codex-style conversational chatbot interface. The update aggressively rewrote application paths, making it impossible to run both versions simultaneously. The only fix was a complete purge of all Antigravity binaries before reinstalling the legacy IDE. The forced transition wiped chat history and settings, and the author argues that background updates should never be used to ship an entirely different product without user consent. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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