Reading up on Antigravity

Two podcast episodes unpack Claude Cowork lead's personal AI workflows and Google I/O 2026's Gemini 3.5 Flash, Antigravity 2.0, and multimodal tool launches.

Gemini 3.5 Flash offers strong speed and agentic performance but suffers from higher cost, hallucination issues, and Google integration problems, making it niche rather than a top-tier contender.

The Firecrawl CLI tool lets AI agents and developers scrape, crawl, search, map, monitor, and interact with web pages directly from the terminal.

Software engineering roles shift as AI speeds coding; juniors must become AI-proficient specialists while seniors maintain deep system knowledge.

The next two years of software engineering hinge on how AI affects junior hiring, skill atrophy, role evolution, specialist vs generalist, and education pathways.

The post argues that AI agents can now replace many SaaS tools by generating custom, in-house software from natural language prompts.

Google announced Antigravity, an agentic development platform that extends its AI IDE with multi-agent workspace management, CLI, and SDK.