Tools: Google Antigravity Vs Github Copilot: Why I'm Team Antigravity Now 💡
If you've been following the AI coding tools space lately, you've probably noticed things are getting wild. We went from "whoa, AI can autocomplete my code!" to "wait, AI can literally build entire features while I grab coffee?" in what feels like about five minutes.
Today I want to talk about two tools that represent this evolution: GitHub Copilot and Google Antigravity. I've used both extensively, and after recently completing a major refactoring project with Antigravity (which I wrote about here), I have some thoughts on how they compare and why one has completely changed how I work.
Spoiler alert: I'm firmly in Team Antigravity now, but it's not because Copilot is bad, it's because they're solving fundamentally different problems. Let me break it down.
Before we get into features and comparisons, let's establish what we're actually talking about here, because calling both of these "AI coding tools" is like calling a bicycle and a self-driving car both "transportation."
Think of Copilot as the world's most capable autocomplete system. It's like having a really talented developer sitting next to you who can predict what you're about to type and suggest completions. It watches what you're doing, understands the context of your code, and offers suggestions in real-time.
It's reactive, it's fast, and it's incredibly good at what it does. Copilot accelerates your existing workflow without fundamentally changing it. You're still the one driving, Copilot just makes the driving smoother and faster.
Antigravity is completely different. It's not trying to predict your next line of code, it's trying to handle entire tasks for you. You don't give it hints about what to write; you give it goals about what to achieve.
This is proactive autonomy. You're not coding line-by-line anymore, you're architecting solutions and delegating implementation to AI agents. It's less "pair programming" and more "managing a really fast junior developer."
The key insight: Copilot makes you code faster. Antigravity makes you code less. These are fundamentally different value propositions.
Let's get into the specifics of how these tools differ across various dimensions.
Source: Dev.to
