I just dumped Google Antigravity

Why I killed my Antigravity subscription today

I woke up to the news that Google hiked Antigravity prices and gutted the rate limits. My first instinct was to complain. My second instinct was to cancel.

I did the second.

I’m not paying for infrastructure I don’t own. When you build on someone else’s "rented" land, you accept their rules and their price hikes. Today, I decided to reclaim my independence.

The math of the "platform tax"

Look at the numbers. If your product feature relied on those tokens, your margin just got nuked.

• Old cost: $1
• New cost: $3
• Value to customer: $5

Your margin went from $4 to $2. You just handed 50% of your business’s value to Google overnight. That isn't a "price adjustment." That is an extraction of your life’s work.

Scaling by subtraction

My core principle is Scale by Subtraction. It means you find the parts of your business that add complexity and waste, and you cut them off.

Antigravity was a "complexity parasite" for me. It forced me to optimize my code for their specific token limits instead of my customer’s needs. It made my product fragile because I was dependent on their API.

How to build your own house

Stop being a tenant. If you are building on a platform, your business is only as safe as that platform's next earnings report.

1. Build an abstraction layer. Don't call the provider directly. Put an interface in between.
2. Modularize. You should be able to swap out your AI model in a single afternoon. If you can't, you are locked in.
3. Focus on the job, not the tool. Your customer doesn't care if you use Google, OpenAI, or a local model. They care about the result.

Discussion starter

If you use AI, I'm sure you also struggled the last few weeks. How did you cope with this change in AI business models?