Antigravity

Raised as a usability problem by 26 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 22 threads.

People raised many different problems with Antigravity, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 26 complaints

Recommends a plan the user cannot access, leading to an error and a dead-end path2026-10-28
Tool is almost unusable and extremely slow, with promo accounts losing model access2026-10-22
Gemini 4 shows as unavailable on mobile but not desktop2026-10-13
Couldn't find a clear option to turn off training on user data2026-10-01
Installing it silently took over opening of common file types like txt, json, csv2026-10-01
Prompts queue up and require manual confirmation to submit whenever a hot-reloading process is running2026-09-30
Sandbox mode is hard to set up, so users get asked to confirm every step2026-09-30
Upgrade button is hard to locate; it appears sporadically and sends user to a different page2026-09-23
Constantly asks permission for routine commands or tries global elevation, needing tedious whitelisting2026-09-03
Switched to Codex-style UI, so user keeps checking which product they're in2026-08-11
Terminal experience doesn't follow OS conventions; mouse, copy-paste and selection are poor2026-08-05
Released product is full of bugs and almost unusable2026-06-24
Typing while model outputs text garbles both input and display2026-05-22
Ink/React interface wastes screen space and makes copy-pasting hard2026-05-22
Silently fails to store credentials when no keyring service is installed2026-05-22
Network access enabled in sandbox settings still fails, with confusing explanation2026-05-20
New interface removed ability to edit code, making it unusable for them2026-05-19
Permissions not respected and agent manager shows zero conversations or crashes2026-05-08
User can't find where chat summaries are saved and doesn't understand several memory components2026-03-26
Finds the product completely unusable, with no specific problem given2026-03-05
App keeps crashing and asks the user to restart it2026-02-13
Felt very early-stage and undercooked; Gemini in it fixates on unimportant details2026-02-02
More queries failed than succeeded at launch, making it painful to use2026-01-08
Editor becomes totally unusable due to LSP servers consuming excessive RAM2026-01-04
Slow responses, repeated mistakes, and hours of hand-holding to reach a broken result2025-12-17
Page uses high CPU and scrolling is choppy and not smooth2025-12-15