Why? There's nothing wrong with metaphor.

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.

As the parent said, actual anti-gravity is world-changing technology. It's telling the very laws of nature to go fuck themselves, you're gonna do what you want, even if all of known physics says it's impossible.

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/.

> There's power there, but it isn't anti-gravity.

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 feel it's a bit ignorant of you to double down on your argument and compare a cloned product release by some macbook swinging google engineers with vaccination, which actually positively impacted many human lives.

Are you for real? When someone disagrees, it's not "ignorance" or "doubling down". It's just legitimate disagreement. There's nothing I'm ignorant of here, so please don't throw around insults like that.

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?

so your point is that you are policing what people think is shameful or ignorant? Is it too much to not think too high of a VSCode fork?

Geez, people are still this impressed by big tech?

Since when did disagreeing become policing? But yes, if someone calls me ignorant without any justification, I'm going to disagree. And if you think that's "policing", I'm sorry but you seem to be the ignorant one here around the meaning of that word.

"Geez," it's just a name. Is it too much to not get worked up over a perfectly innocent and fun name?

Perfectly innocent and fun name, coming from Google? Are you for real? That's one of the craziest things I've read in this forum, someone still thinking Google is an innocent startup with a "Don't be evil" motto.

You think the name is evil...? Sorry, but that's one of the craziest things I've read in this forum.

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 that you are treating as a separate entity, does not exist by itself. Naming a product is an act of a company, Google. There is no conspiracy here, we are talking about bad taste and low quality.

Whether the name is "shameful" has nothing to do with who names it. Yes, the name does exist by itself.

The name is fine. You are bringing some kind of anti-Google prejudice to this that is irrelevant and frankly baffling.

They should not be too metaphorical when naming a clone, tho.

Wait until you see Google Perpetual Motion Machine, their appointment-booking virtual assistant.