My experience with Antigravity 2.0 (it's bad!)

• May 20, 2026 at 08:05 IST
• 3 min read
• antigravity

Google I/O 2026 happened and Google announced a bunch of interesting things in the event. One thing I was particularly interested in was the new Antigravity 2.0, as I loved using the tool and coded the first versions of SharePDF by using this only in December-January this year.

But the new IDE didn't live up to my expectations, and it's bad!

So... let's look at everything bad one-by-one for the new Antigravity app:

1. Couldn't log in for hours

As soon as they announced Antigravity in the event, it was available for download. I updated the existing Antigravity app, and it got logged out when the new app opened. I tried logging in multiple times, but I kept seeing auth errors.

I kept seeing the above screen no matter how many times I tried. After an hour or so, the authentication successfully worked but when I quit and reopened the app, it started having the same issues again.

But it finally worked when I used it after several hours.

2. Keep asking for approvals

I have set Auto Execution and Review Policy options to "Always Proceed" as you see in the screenshot below, but it keeps asking for approvals each time.

And this is just an example, I had to approve at least 20 times for a simple HTML page I asked it to create. I have given "Full Access" to it, but this is still happening.

At least this wasn't happening on the Antigravity 1.0, right?

3. Creates lots of unwanted HTML files

I asked it to create a personal website for me by taking the required data from my existing website, but to be precise this was the exact prompt:

Create a clean and minimal personal website for me.
Take whatever info you need from my existing website: deepakness.com

And while it created the website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it also created a bunch of temporary HTML files in the folder. I confronted, then it said that those can be safely deleted.

4. No plan mode anymore

I don't see the plan mode anywhere in the IDE, the dropdown we had earlier for planning/fast modes, no longer appears to be there.

5. Creates SPA all the time

When you don't mention the tech-stack, it always creates websites as SPA (single page applications). For the personal website sample project I created earlier:

All views (#home, #projects, #about, #newsletter) live in a single index.html and are toggled via JavaScript (navigateTo() in app.js) without full page reloads. It uses hash-based routing (#home, #projects, etc.) and content is dynamically shown/hidden client-side.

I tried the same prompt (from #3 above) at least 5 times, it created SPAs every time.

6. Has a bad design taste

I thought that the new model will have a great design capabilities, but it does not! It's still all purple, as you see in screenshots here.

I blame the Antigravity harness here, because designs are slightly better when I used the same prompt in the Google AI Studio.

7. Antigravity CLI also has bugs

To be honest, the Antigravity CLI is far better than the previous Gemini CLI and it's better than the Antigravity app as well. But it also has some bugs:

• the prompt input field sometimes disappear
• the scroll doesn't work at all sometimes
• keeps asking for approvals, even after setting everything as "Always Proceed"

8. Other people sharing their experiences

Here are some posts by other people who have shared about Antigravity, that I found while browsing the internet:

• Robin created a quick video on X sharing how bad his experience was.
• The new 3.5 Flash model is very costly as well, as shared by someone on X.

Now, here are some things I liked:

1. I liked the multi-folder options for projects, as I can give access to multiple folders without giving access to the entire computer.
2. Usage limits for the new models are slightly higher than earlier on the AI Pro plan, and I think they have also added 1,000 extra AI credits for everyone.

That's it.

I will keep updating this page as I discover more things I like or dislike.