Google Enters the Code Editor Fray

Before we dig into this week’s links, I want to do a quick follow-up on some additional experience from last week’s coding interlude.

Anthropic extended their free credit usage for Claude Code Web through November 22nd, which gave me a few extra days to play with it. My main focus was a wish list app, which I can safely say is now in beta.

Background AI coding assistants are very useful when I’m not actively at the keyboard, want to map out a more complicated integration, or want to test a couple different approaches simultaneously. But when I am at the keyboard, kicking a task off to a background agent and waiting for it to iterate didn’t feel efficient. I kept checking in to see if it was done so I could test and review. Once the feature work got into the minutiae, like adjusting padding in Tailwind, the overhead wasn’t worth it. It’s still far more efficient to use Claude Code CLI or VS Code to iterate quickly locally (or just do it myself).

That said firing off tasks from my phone to be worked on overnight is great to keep things moving. It also helps jump back in the next night to have a nice PR waiting for my code review.

Speaking of code reviews, GitHub Copilot’s automated reviews were invaluable for keeping to best practices. Especially on larger changes. It caught things like not using the proper Next.js <Link> component for internal navigation, potential sanitization issues, and stray console.log statements.

In the end, I was able to put together a Next.js + shadcn/ui wish list management app that pulls product info, lets users create and share lists, implements Better Auth for authentication, offers a no-sign-up trial mode, and serves images from Cloudflare R2. All built over a few evenings across two weeks. Give it a look.

📰 Article
A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3
Google
Google dominated the conversation this week with the release of their Gemini 3 model. They immediately rolled it out across their product lineup and dropped their own AI-assisted code editor, Antigravity. Google is turning up the heat in the AI race as the year winds down.

For a quick breakdown of how Gemini 3 shifts the landscape, check out this episode of AI Daily Brief.

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Learn the basics of Google Antigravity
YouTube
I’m excited to give Google’s Antigravity a run. It takes an interesting approach to planning and implementing code. The deep integration with Chrome and Nano Banana gives it real potential on the frontend side. Being able to mark up specific areas of screenshots might finally solve some of my frustrations with how badly models struggle with simple CSS adjustments.

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He’s Been Right About AI for 40 Years. Now He Thinks Everyone Is Wrong.
Yann LeCun, Meta’s former AI chief, is launching his own startup focused on world models — systems trained on real-world visual data rather than text. This can only end well…

Don’t worry though, Jeff Bezos is into it too. And his project is the not-ominously-named Prometheus.

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Unlocking the full power of Copilot code review: Master your instructions files
GitHub
This piece has great guidelines for setting up agent instruction files to get the most out of GitHub’s automated code reviews. I was impressed with how well Copilot followed the instruction files in my repo, and this article explains why.

🎧 Listen
Why v0 creator left Vercel to fix GitHub (GOAT Jared Palmer)
A quick, worthwhile interview with Jared Palmer, creator of v0 and now at GitHub. It covers what’s coming next for GitHub and includes some genuinely useful AI coding tips at the end. I had missed ultrathink until now.