he Day Gravity Stopped: My First Week with Gemini 3 Pro and Google Antigravity
Look, I’m as cynical as the next senior dev when it comes to AI hype cycles. I remember the early CoPilot days—impressive, sure, but I still spent half my time debugging hallucinated imports.
Recently, I’ve been daily driving Windsurf by Codeium. Honestly? It’s excellent. It’s a solid fork of VS Code with deeply integrated AI that understands my codebase better than I do on a Monday morning. It felt like having a really sharp junior dev paired with me constantly. I thought, "This is it. This is as good as it gets for a while."
Then I got access to the Gemini 3 Pro beta, coupled with something Google is calling Project "Antigravity."
My jaw didn’t just drop; it detached.
The Paradigm Shift: What is "Antigravity"?
Gemini 3 Pro by itself is a monster model. The reasoning capabilities are terrifyingly good. But "Antigravity" is the real game-changer for us programmers.
Windsurf (and others) are essentially incredibly smart autocomplete engines running inside your existing environment. They are tethered to your local setup, your Docker containers, your specific node version limitations.
Antigravity changes the physics of development. It isn't an IDE plugin; it’s a frictionless, ephemeral compute layer attached directly to the model's output.
When I ask Gemini 3 Pro to "scaffold a microservice using Rust and gRPC with a Postgres backend," it doesn't just spit out code blocks for me to copy-paste into five different files. Antigravity instantly spins up a sandboxed, networked environment with the database running, the Rust service compiled, and the ports exposed.
It’s not just generating code; it’s generating running reality. The friction of "environment setup"—the gravity that holds us down—is gone.
The Showdown: Windsurf vs. The Future
I needed to visualize just how different these experiences are. Windsurf is amazing technology based on the current paradigm. Gemini 3 Pro with Antigravity is the next paradigm.
I whipped up a quick HTML grid to compare my experience over the last week.
| Feature | Windsurf (Current Gen Leader) | Gemini 3 Pro + Antigravity (Next Gen) |
|---|---|---|
| Context Awareness | Excellent. Reads current open tabs and indexes the local repository very fast. | ✓ Absurd. It ingested my entire org's monorepo, related documentation URLs, and Jira tickets instantly. It knows why I'm writing the code. |
| Code Generation Scope | Great at functions, classes, and small modules. Needs human assembly. | ✓ Architectural. Can generate entire multi-service stacks, including Kubernetes manifests and Terraform files, in one shot. |
| Execution Environment ("Antigravity") | N/A. Relies entirely on the user's local machine setup (Docker, node_modules, etc.). | ✓ Native Feature. The code is born running in an ephemeral, managed cloud sandbox. Zero local setup required. |
| Debugging Workflow | Reactive. You get an error in your terminal, paste it back into Windsurf chat, it suggests a fix. | ✓ Predictive. Antigravity saw the stack trace before I did, fixed the race condition in the background, and presented the diff of the working solution. |
| Latency/Feel | Very snappy. Feels like a super-fast pair programmer. | ✓ Telepathic. It feels like it's completing my thoughts before I finish typing the prompt. The speed is unsettling. |
Conclusion: The Weight is Gone
Windsurf is a fantastic tool that makes me about 30% faster at writing code. If you can't get Gemini 3 Pro yet, use Windsurf.
But Gemini 3 Pro with Antigravity doesn't just make me faster at writing code; it eliminates the need for me to do 50% of the job entirely. DevOps, environment config, dependency hell—it just floated away.
I don't know how I'm ever going back to "gravity" again.