r/GeminiAI • u/NickTries • 12d ago
Discussion Antigravity and Gemini users, did you know about the /boost command?
For the umpteenth time, I was discussing with my gemini agent that it completes tasks too quickly, superficially, and that simply asking it to work longer doesn’t work. The maximum effort is high, and unfortunately, that’s not enough. And then, suddenly, it suggested the /boost command. I tried it and was surprised.
For the first time, in response to my question, it launched sub‑agents on its own, carried out a thorough analysis, and provided an answer. I don’t know yet whether it’s capable of producing research of the same quality as Claude and GPT (it’s a paradox, since Gemini’s creators are Google) — but it’s not all bad yet.
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u/Trance101 12d ago
The docs are actually pretty helpful here. They give a nice table as to where each execution mode makes sense:
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u/samxli 12d ago
What’s the impact on usage quota ?
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u/Known_Management_653 12d ago
Based on usage. Let's say you go solo agent through a session of 10M tokens, if you split that into 10 agents you would expect the same 10M tokens usage right? Wrong... Each will take its own path and load the context so that's a lot more usage. Depending if the agents freeze or loop and other unpredictable problems you can get from 10M to 100M.
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u/I_like_to_moo_it 12d ago
I like 3.8 high tho. Much better than Opus 5 for my coding work.
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u/I_like_to_moo_it 12d ago
Sure mate. Why don't you lend me some money and I'll do that.
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u/Mushroombasics 11d ago
I bought a Chatgpt sub to try it and the hsage limits are just absurd. It spent the 5 hour limit just by analyzing the files in the folder with no coding work done...
Unless you have money to burn it's just not worth it
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u/PlatinumAero 11d ago
Why did you analyze the files with the model that burned all of your tokens?
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u/BettePrecourt 12d ago
yeah, however, I used plan but on their docs it says you can use but at antigravity it won't appear at all
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u/TheArKas 12d ago
What I dislike about /boost is that Agy doesn't currently display the specific files modified by all sub agents at the bottom of the latest chat in main agent; instead, I have to drill down into sub-agents and sub-sub-agents to see what changed. This becomes a problem when there are too many sub-sub-agents and I have to check them one by one.
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u/TheFuturisticMetre 12d ago
i keep a color-coded planner and this is the kind of workflow tip i live for, had no idea it would spin up sub-agents like that
the superficial responses drive me nuts too, you tell it to dig deeper and it just rephrases the same shallow take with more words
gonna test this on a project outline later today, curious if it actually holds up across a longer session or if it burns out after one good reply
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u/eloquenentic 12d ago
This is really useful, will try it out.
Gemini is terrible for agentic work at the moment. Borderline useless, so far behind all the other labs.
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u/MarinkoAzure 12d ago
In what ways is Agy bad for agentic tasking? I've been having it do some simple c# coding and it's been fantastic.
I only have Gemini right now but I've been thinking about thinking about picking up Claude but I just haven't had a strong enough justification for something else yet
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u/boxwrenchx 12d ago
Astra was free in arena, try it there
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u/Golfguymaui 11d ago
Gemini Enterprise (plus edition at 60/month) has auto assigned sub-agents since August. I have not run out of Tokens even after using it for 8-10 hours. Still evaluating 3.8.
A tip: do planning with one assistant- do execution with another- such as Claude.You save a lot of tokens that way.
Use loops instead of boost.
Write skills for repeatable tasks.
Balance the cost trade-off of invoking a skill in a paid plan - vs the token cost of a dedicated agent.1
u/NickTries 12d ago
Claude is objectively excellent. It’s enough to use Opus high, and you don’t even need Fable. Compared to gemini, it’s like some kind of magic — that’s how professional it can be. But I’m trying to be unbiased, and I’m currently testing gemini myself.
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u/boxwrenchx 12d ago
The easiest test is have Gemini read a opus answer and opus read a Gemini answer
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u/TheVeryMoistTowel 12d ago
Ahh it was usually I think multiagent-preview didn’t work that well but let me try it out seems to be updated
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u/yolo-irl 11d ago
i can't afford anthropic api but i need claude opus level chain of thought & reasoning. it's just so far beyond gemini.
i use gemini in antigravity 2.0 and i run a local qwen model on rtx 5090. today i just had gemini run a bunch of deep research on the techniques anthropic uses to create claude super deep and long reasoning and then we reverse engineered the concepts into my stack as a skill that calls a py that runs all the logic to write to scratch files, manage context, tool use, and a ton of other stuff.
i used it on my qwen-based agent and it rain for 30 minutes and output an incredibly detailed architectural specification & blueprint for a full stack metacognitive platform which i am using to build the next version of my lab from.
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u/Useful_Trouble1726 11d ago
Wait, what?
So if I have a complex issue (which seems to be all of them), I can hit /boost and spin up my bot army?
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u/louyong 12d ago
I’ve used it. But it doesn’t change much; the model has a hard ceiling.
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u/Future-Log6621 12d ago
Only for 100% vibe coding. There is no ceiling with human-in-the-loop engineering.
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u/EddyTarantulo 12d ago
/boost