Product leaders that apply world-changing technology breakthrough names to their yet-another cloned SaaS product deserve more shame.
Antigravity would be a world-changing technology. This isn't.
Antigravity would be a world-changing technology. This isn't.
And agentic coding is about working at a much higher conceptual level. Further from the ground. Antigravity is a functional metaphor.
My only issue with it is that it's too long at five syllables, and "anti-" is an inherently negative connotation. I'm guessing this will eventually get renamed if it gets popular, much like Bard was.
Working at a higher conceptual level is just project management. You're the legislator giving out unfunded mandates rather than the agency staff that has to figure out how to comply. There's power there, but it isn't anti-gravity.
That said, I suspect this is really meant to allude to https://xkcd.com/353/.
That's why it's metaphor. "Operation Warp Speed" also delivered vaccines quickly, but not faster than the speed of light.
The list of company and product names that are based on a metaphor that is very obviously exaggerated is endless. Google doesn't index a googol number of pages either.
I just continue to stand by the fact that naming products using exaggerated metaphor is standard practice. The idea that it is "shameful" or "ignorant" seems absurd. I think it's OK not to take it too seriously. Nobody is going to be confused and walk off of a cliff or something because the product is named "antigravity"...
Do you get upset that the Milky Way candy bar doesn't actually contain a galaxy within? Or that the Chicago Bulls aren't as strong as actual bulls?
Geez, people are still this impressed by big tech?
"Geez," it's just a name. Is it too much to not get worked up over a perfectly innocent and fun name?
We're not talking about monopolistic business strategy here or anything. We're talking about a product name. So yeah, I think the name is perfectly innocent and fun. I cannot understand the level of conspiratorial thinking that must be involved to think "antigravity" is some kind of offensive choice. Bizarre.
The name is fine. You are bringing some kind of anti-Google prejudice to this that is irrelevant and frankly baffling.
Quite shocking to see that Google would consider using this crass software and is the most inefficient software libraries ever made.
What were the engineers thinking?