A New Workflow#
You might have noticed some changes around here efficiently. I recently updated this website, adding a custom SoundCloud widget to my music posts and implementing full multi-language support (Italian and English). But I didn’t do it alone—or rather, I didn’t do it the “traditional” way.
For these updates, I used Antigravity, an advanced agentic coding assistant from Google.
Coding with an Agent#
Unlike standard code completion tools, working with Antigravity feels more like pair programming with a proactive engineer. instead of just asking “how do I center a div”, I gave it high-level goals:
- “Add a SoundCloud widget to the top of the article.”
- “Make the widget look like it belongs to the site’s theme.”
- “Translate the entire site into Italian.”
The Process#
The most impressive part was watching it handle the complexity of the multi-language setup. It didn’t just translate the text; it understood the structure of Hugo. It created the configuration files, set up the menu definitions for the new language, and even realized (after a quick debug) that it needed to create specific _index.md files for the section to render correctly in Italian.
It also handled the aesthetics. When I asked to integrate the SoundCloud player, it didn’t just paste the iframe. It researched the site’s “Forest” theme, found the primary color variable in the CSS, and customized the widget’s color scheme to match perfectly, wrapping it in a responsive container.
The Future of Building#
This experience has shifted how I view personal projects. It removes the friction between having an idea (“I want this site in Italian”) and the execution. It allows me to focus on the what and why, while the agent handles the heavy lifting of the how.