I won’t even get into the merit of “why is the useless chatbot the default product?”, because I can guess the answer is that it’s to impress gullible executives and other stupid money marks into thinking that a chat window is all you need to create useful software now.
But for those of us that were already using Antigravity, why did our IDE auto-updated to a completely different application?
Wouldn’t it have made a thousand times more sense for our IDE to auto-update to the new version of the IDE instead?
And, preferably, to keep configuration and extensions. It would be chaos if VSCode lost everything everytime there was an update.
The new one reads data from an %appdata% folder named “Antigravity IDE”, not “Antigravity” like the previous one, and the autoupdate doesn’t migrate it nor tells the user about this. Thankfully it’s at least straightforward to migrate that data manually.
But seriously, total amateur hour from Google.