Surviving the Antigravity 2.0 Update: How Google Broke My Workflow (And How to Fix It) (opens in new tab)

I was right in the middle of a serious coding session when, without warning, my entire development environment was hijacked. My familiar code editor, file tree, and integrated terminal vanished, instantly replaced by a blank, chat-only “Agent Manager” dashboard. As someone who relies almost entirely on the classic IDE to get actual development work done, having my productivity shattered by an unprompted, forced update was incredibly annoying. I lost hours of work just trying to figure out whe...