On Tuesday, a developer named Sid discovered that Antigravity, the AI IDE he had been writing production code inside, made by Google, no longer contained an IDE. Google had pushed a background update that silently replaced the editor with a chat window, wiped his configurations, and split the install across two directories so the launcher broke on its own. Terminal gone. Sidebar gone. Settings gone. Recovery instructions, per Google's own developer forum: roll back to version 1.23.2 by hand and disable auto-updates.
The forum thread title, filed by a paying customer:
"Antigravity 2.0 forced update is a drag back to the stone age, give us the IDE back"
Killed by Google lists 290 discontinued Google products. Reader died in 2013. Stadia died in 2023 after Google spent four years asking game studios to build for it. Sid signed up anyway.
At I/O 2026, the same week, Google announced Antigravity AI Ultra for $100 a month: five times the AI limits in the product it spent the week removing the editor from. Sid recovered his settings from his old Cursor folder, where they had worked fine before he moved to Google.