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I agree, if the benefits are so large, there should be clearer evidence (that isn't, "trust me, just use it").

That said, I use Antigravity with great success for self hosted software. I should publish it.

Why haven't I?

* The software is pretty specific to my requirements.

* Antigravity did the vast amount of work, it feels unworthy?

* I don't really want a project, but that shouldn't really stop me pushing to a public repo.

* I'm a bit hesitant to "out" myself?

Nonetheless, even though I'm not the person, I'm surprised there isn't more evidence out there.

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I think this "* The software is pretty specific to my requirements." is the biggest part for me. I built something with Antigravity over the holidays that I can use for myself and it solves my use case. I tried thinking about if this can be helpful for others and pushed it a bit further into a version that could be hosted. Which does not make that much sense because it is a computationally intense numerical solver for thermal bridges and just awfully slow on a free hosted platform. But the project was a couple of evenings and would otherwise haven taken me half a year to complete (and thus never been done).

https://github.com/schoenenbach/thermal-bridge https://thermal-bridge.streamlit.app/

> Antigravity did the vast amount of work, it feels unworthy

I think this is true for me as well. I have two types of projects that I’ve been working on - small ones with a mix of code I wrote and AI. I have posted these, as I spent a lot of time guiding the AI, cleaning up the AI’s output, and I think the overall project has value that others can learn from and built on.

But I also have some that are almost 100% vibe-coded. First, those would take a lot of time to clean up and write documentation for to make them publishable/useful.

But also, I do think they feel “unworthy”. Even though I think they can be helpful, and I was looking for open-source versions of those things. But how valuable can it really be if I was able to vibe-code it in a few prompts? The next person looking for it will probably do the same thing I did and vibe-code their own version after a few minutes.

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