Google Antigravity Is Not Just Another AI Editor — It's a Different Bet Entirely

The last few years of AI-assisted development have followed a predictable arc: autocomplete gets smarter, context windows grow, the chat panel gets better at reading your whole repo. The mental model, though, barely changed. You still drive. The AI is a very fast copilot who never gets tired. Google Antigravity is a bet that this model has a ceiling — and that the next meaningful step is handing the wheel over entirely for well-scoped tasks. Whether that bet pays off is a genuinely open questi...