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When Antigravity Swaps Its Default Model, Only the Jobs You Narrowed First Survive
Gemini 3.7 Flash is now the default model for Antigravity agents. The places you never configured are exactly the places that shift silently. Here is how to inventory your default-model exposure, then split your jobs into move-now and hold, scored by how much output freedom you left open.
When a Fast Model Feels Slow, Look at Reasoning Effort Before Switching Models
Antigravity lets you pick a reasoning effort level per model. Here is how I decide between Low, Medium, and High based on the shape of the task, what to check when changing it makes no difference, and a small script for correcting your own judgment with records instead of memory.
Half My Tasks Went to Pro — and So Did Only 61% of the Tokens
A singular model setting became a models collection, which means routing across models is now something you define yourself. Here is how I re-measured a task-type routing rule against the actual context-size distribution of 67 tasks in my own repository.
Routing /effort by Task Class in Antigravity CLI: Six Weeks of Measurements
I built a small router that picks an /effort level from the shape of the task, then aggregated six weeks of run logs. Here is where raising effort helped, where it actively hurt, and what mattered more than effort.
Routing Between Local Gemma and Cloud Gemini 3.5 Flash by How Easily You Can Verify the Output
When I split local and cloud work by whether it was sensitive, or by which was faster, my decisions wobbled every time. The axis that finally held was different: if the output is wrong, can I catch it cheaply and undo it cheaply? Here is a router that chooses a model from verifiability and recovery cost, with working code and a measurement ledger.
Is the $100 AI Ultra Tier Worth It Solo? Measure the Break-Even from Limits and Parallelism
Whether the $100/month AI Ultra tier (5x the Pro limit) is worth it for an indie developer, framed as a break-even from how often you hit the cap and the effective throughput of parallel agents, with a calculator script.
Measure Before You Trim: A Context Ledger for Antigravity CLI Token and Latency Costs
Prompted by the ~70% token reduction reported for the Android CLI agent, I built a thin wrapper and a weekly review to measure my own agent runs. Here is how I replaced whole-file context with line ranges and cut wait times.
When an Overnight Local Agent Crawls by Dawn — Keeping Ollama's Latency Flat by Working Backward from Context Length
Why each step of a long-running local agent gets heavier toward the end, how to measure it from Ollama's timing fields, and how a fixed num_ctx plus a rolling summary keep per-step latency flat.
A Schedule That Survives 429s: Backoff and Jitter for Agent Automation
Run agents in parallel and rate-limit 429s can cascade until everything dies. Here is how to design exponential backoff and jitter so the retries themselves don't create new congestion, from an indie developer's automation setup.
Using the v2.1.4 Quota Screen for a Weekly Reckoning: Reading Used and Remaining to Run an Indie Budget
How to turn the used/remaining display in the reworked Antigravity v2.1.4 quota screen into a weekly reckoning instead of a gut feeling. Baseline recording, burn-rate math, and allocation across multiple projects, written as an indie-dev operating routine.
Your Antigravity LLM App Drifts on Cost and Quality While the Dashboard Stays Green — Instrumentation Field Notes
Watching only total cost and latency hides the slow drifts that hurt. These are field notes on attributing telemetry by feature, tenant, and prompt version so you catch quality regressions and cost spikes early.
LM Studio Not Starting or Model Won't Load? Fixes for Mac & Windows (2026)
Fix LM Studio startup failures, model loading errors, and unresponsive local API server issues on Mac and Windows with step-by-step solutions and prevention tips.