Say you’re just someone who does stuff and it’s on the computer. Wouldn’t it be good if you could automate some of the stuff? Sounds useful! You do some web design, but you’re not much of a coder. But you’ve heard AI is the best thing ever! All the news sites are telling you how great AI is! And an AI can write code for you! What’s a good one to try? How about Google’s new thing? It’s called Antigravity. Based on the new Gemini 3! Google’s a pretty trustworthy big name! The promo video says this is great! [_Google_ _;__YouTube_] > Google Antigravity is built for user trust, whether you’re a professional developer working in a large enterprise codebase, a hobbyist vibe-coding in their spare time, or anyone in between. Let’s give it a spin! Oh. It’s just wiped your D: drive. The second hard disk on a Windows PC, where people tend to put the stuff they’re working on. [_Reddit_] Tassos M is a Greek photographer and graphic designer who just suffered this. He posted about it to Reddit, and has an 11-minute video taking you through Google Antigravity admitting how it trashed his disk: [_YouTube_] > I am asking, did I ever give you permission to delete all the files in my D drive? And this is all the thinking that the AI did … and then it gave me the reply. No, you absolutely did not give me the permission to do that. > > I love Google, I use all the products. But I was never expecting for all the smart engineers and all the billions that they spent to create such a product to allow that to happen, even like 1%, if there was a chance in a thousand, this seems unbelievable to me. The helpful posters on Reddit blamed the victim, of course. He’d been prompting it wrong. But this is a user believing that Google was trustworthy, that this product was as good as Google represented it, and that Google wouldn’t just release user-hostile garbage. It wasn’t just Tassos. Multiple other Reddit users report the same thing — Antigravity is very keen to just delete stuff that isn’t anywhere near your actual project folder. But it’ll apologise profusely afterwards. [_Reddit_ _;__Reddit_] The Register asked Google about this: [_Register_] > We take these issues seriously. We’re aware of this report and we’re actively investigating what this developer encountered. Google is marketing Antigravity as a trustworthy assistant when it’s an experimental bunch of wires on a lab bench. You or I know these tools are an unexploded bomb ready to take out your project and anything else on your computer it can reach. Sorry about that! But that’s not how Google’s advertising Antigravity to ordinary people, who know a bit of computer and they hope a trustworthy AI assistant will let them do a bit more of the things they want to do. Normal people get a continuous 24/7 barrage of how great AI is, they trust Google, and then the agentic AI blows them up. For ordinary people, AI coding bots are a disaster waiting to happen. Friends don’t let friends vibe-code. * _Video_ _—_ _Podcast_ ### Share this post: * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * ### Like this: Like Loading... ### _Related_