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Google updates Antigravity to version 2.0 after its $2.4 billion Windsurf acquisition, converting the tool into a desktop app powered by Gemini models

Observers say the app handles tasks without code inspection.

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Just tried Antigravity 2.0. It’s not an IDE anymore... I’m surprised! It’s basically the Codex/Claude desktop app with Gemini models. After spending $2.4B acquiring Windsurf, Google concluded that the future of AI coding is not IDE. We don’t need to read the code anymore.

9:18 PM · May 20, 2026 View on X

I'm not too happy about this

For some stuff like my .env files I really want an IDE. I'm not doing that shit in a console nor am I telling an LLM "here are all my secret keys, please add them to the .env file"

this is probably just a skill issue, but whatever. I'm gonna stick to my IDEs even if I'm only making use of it once every 3 weeks

Yuchen JinYuchen Jin@Yuchenj_UW

Just tried Antigravity 2.0. It’s not an IDE anymore... I’m surprised! It’s basically the Codex/Claude desktop app with Gemini models. After spending $2.4B acquiring Windsurf, Google concluded that the future of AI coding is not IDE. We don’t need to read the code anymore.

4:18 AM · May 21, 2026 · 20.6K Views
8:37 AM · May 21, 2026 · 1.6K Views

@Yuchenj_UW Why are you surprised lol who reads code?

Yuchen JinYuchen Jin@Yuchenj_UW

Just tried Antigravity 2.0. It’s not an IDE anymore... I’m surprised! It’s basically the Codex/Claude desktop app with Gemini models. After spending $2.4B acquiring Windsurf, Google concluded that the future of AI coding is not IDE. We don’t need to read the code anymore.

4:18 AM · May 21, 2026 · 20.6K Views
4:25 AM · May 21, 2026 · 1.3K Views