A developer shares their week-long experience with Google Antigravity 2.0's agentic workflow, arguing it fundamentally changes how coding feels compared to traditional IDEs. Rather than typing code manually, the author describes assigning tasks, reviewing agent plans, and watching Gemini 3.5 autonomously navigate and modify files across a project. The piece contrasts Antigravity's initiative-taking approach with conventional IDEs like Zed and VS Code, noting that while human judgment is still needed for design decisions, repetitive execution work is dramatically reduced. The author concludes that agentic IDEs represent the future of development.

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Standard IDEs felt too manualThe Agent view changes the mental modelGemini 3.5 felt powerfulAntigravity reduced the boring parts of developmentThe future of IDEs arrived
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