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user34283today at 11:35 AM1 replyview on HN

I doubt there will be a reckoning.

Yes, the tools still have major issues. Yet, they have become more and more usable and a very valuable tool for me.

Do you remember when we all used Google and StackOverflow? Nowadays most of the answers can be found immediately using AI.

As for agentic AI, it's quite useful. Want to find something in the code base, understand how something works? A decent explanation might only be one short query away. Just let the AI do the initial searching and analysis, it's essentially free.

I'm also impressed with the code generation - I've had Gemini 3 Pro in Antigravity generate great looking React UI, sometimes even better than what I would have come up with. It also generated a Python backend and the API between the two.

Sometimes it tries to do weird stuff, and we definitely saw in this post that the command execution needs to be on manual instead of automatic. I also in particular have an issue with Antigravity corrupting files when trying to use the "replace in file" tool. Usually it manages to recover from that on its own.


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fireflash38today at 2:58 PM

AI pulls its answers from stack overflow.

What will happen when SO is gone? When the problems go beyond the corpus the AI was trained on?

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