Hey everyone,
With the massive “high traffic / 503” outage today (some of us stuck for 10+ hours, Ultra plan included), a lot of us are sitting here frustrated as hell — even those who paid good money.
But let’s be real for a second, because most of us here are devs and we all know the truth:
Antigravity is fundamentally a fork of VS Code. Google didn’t build a new editor from scratch. They took the VS Code codebase, wrapped Gemini (and their agent system) on top of it, and called it “agent-first IDE” to ship faster than ever. Smart move on the engineering side — I get it.
The problem is: it’s working too well.
We’re getting hooked. The workflow feels so powerful that even when it’s down for an entire day, even when it’s buggy as hell (high traffic, quota issues, random agent failures, etc.), a lot of us still come back. It’s starting to feel like a broken while(true) loop — we keep retrying, keep paying (or hoping the free tier works), keep depending on something that’s not even stable yet.
So my honest question to the community:
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Are we willingly walking into a clever lock-in play by Google?
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Is “ship faster than ever” just code for “make devs dependent on our closed Gemini ecosystem so we control the whole stack”?
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At what point does the convenience stop being worth the frustration and the risk of single-point-of-failure?
I’m not here to hate — I actually love what Antigravity could be. But right now, whether you’re on free or Ultra, the experience feels… humiliating sometimes.
What do you guys think?
Are you feeling the same dependency creeping in?
Or am I just being dramatic because I’ve been staring at the “try again in a minute” screen for 12 hours straight? 
Let’s discuss honestly — no corporate filter.