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walthamstow • yesterday at 8:38 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

I have used it for little more than 6 hours or so in total but I'm pretty sure it doesn't have compaction?


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piyh • yesterday at 10:43 PM

They only released auto mode in the last 2 weeks. Before that it was bypass permissions or manually approve every single tool call. Antigravity is permanently 6 months behind.

I have a skill that spins up worktrees and isolated services on unique ports so I can work in parallel. Antigravity queues all my prompts and makes me confirm to submit them anytime a long running process like a hot reloading UI is active.

The models are fine, the limits are generous, but the dev experience shit tier. Before they were a Codex clone, AntiGravity was an IDE and during the transition to a clone they outright deleted my IDE. It took them a week to roll out a fix.

For almost a year they didn't allow you to see usage limits. Then when they did show them, they update every ~30 minutes and require 4 clicks to navigate to. It's a little better now, but it's still painfully behind the curve.

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KeplerBoy • yesterday at 8:49 PM

How else would it work? Less technical people don't even watch their context usage.

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honr • yesterday at 9:22 PM

It certainly has compaction (since the public launch I assume) and I HATE it. I have some remedies but nothing perfect yet. It never retains ALL the crucial bits. If a conversation runs into two compactions it is often a sign that I have to abandon it and retain whatever I can, to form a seed prompt for an adjacent conversation.

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