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vjay15last Thursday at 12:55 PM1 replyview on HN

Antigravity is really amazing yea, by far the best coding assistant IDE, its even superior than Cursor ngl when it comes to very complex tasks, its more methodical in its approach.

That said I still use Cursor for work and Antigravity sometimes for building toy projects, they are both good.


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thegagnelast Thursday at 1:49 PM

Speaking of methodical, have you tried AWS Kiro?

It has spec driven development, which in my testing yesterday resulted in a boat load of passing tests but zero useful code.

It first gathers requirements, which are all worded in strange language that somehow don’t capture specific outcomes OR important implementation details.

Then it builds a design file where it comes up with an overly complex architecture, based on the requirements.

Then it comes up with a lengthy set of tasks to accomplish it. It does let you opt out if optional testing, but don’t worry, it still will write a ton of tests.

You click go on each set of tasks, and wait for it to request permissions for odd things like “chmod +x index.ts”.

8 hours and 200+ credits later, you have a monstrosity of Enterprise Grade Fizzbuzz.

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