Xia@xiaonweb
Today I uninstalled Antigravity.
Not because I suddenly decided I hate AI tools or because I woke up wanting to write everything by hand like it is 2006 again ( i hate this to an extent now ) , but because after weeks of trying to actually rely on it for real work I realized I was spending more time fighting the tool than writing code, and at some point it becomes genuinely absurd when the thing that is supposed to accelerate your workflow keeps interrupting it every five minutes with some new limitation, broken tool call, or a quiet little reminder that the feature you thought you were using is actually sitting behind an ULTRA plan.
Half the time the tool calls did not even work.
You would ask it to run something, or fetch something, or analyze a file, and it would confidently say it was doing it, only for absolutely nothing to happen, or it would hallucinate that a tool succeeded when it clearly did not, or it would suddenly switch models mid conversation and the reasoning would drop so hard that it felt like you had handed your keyboard to someone who skimmed the documentation once three months ago.
And the weirdest part is that none of this feels accidental anymore, it feels designed. Goolgle made people switch to their vscode fork offering free Opus and other cooler models , lets be honest no one used Antigravity for their gemini slop
Suddenly the responses slow down, the context window shrinks, the tool calls stop working as reliably, and you quietly get pushed back to the default Gemini tier that feels like the AI equivalent of running a modern game on integrated graphics where everything technically runs but nothing feels smooth enough to actually enjoy.
And this is where Google has been especially frustrating lately because the entire ecosystem is starting to feel like a carefully engineered funnel where the free tier exists mostly to demonstrate how good the paid version might be, which is a very different thing from actually giving people a usable tool.
You open the model list and you see the interesting ones sitting there like museum exhibits behind glass.
You can look at them.
You can occasionally poke them.
But the moment you try to rely on them for real development work the system starts nudging you toward the same solution every single time, which is the little upgrade button that promises things will magically work better once you start paying.
And maybe they will.
But the experience leading up to that moment feels so intentionally constrained that it starts leaving a bad taste in your mouth, because instead of feeling like you are using a powerful piece of software you start feeling like you are trapped inside a product demo that never quite ends.
Which is why today I just removed Antigravity completely and went back to writing things by hand, and yes it absolutely takes longer and yes I am typing more boilerplate than I probably should in 2026, but at least the code I write actually runs, the tools I call actually exist, and there is something strangely refreshing about a development workflow where the only thing between you and your program is your own ability to write it instead of a rotating stack of rate limits, model downgrades, and half working integrations that constantly remind you that the good version of the tool is apparently waiting for you somewhere behind a subscription tier.
