This discussion with Rody Davis, a top agentic engineer at Google, explores the transition to agent-first platforms like Antigravity 2.0. Antigravity 2.0 is a comprehensive platform with a desktop manager, CLI, SDK, and IDE, allowing developers custom environments. Davis emphasizes that AI accelerates the entire software lifecycle, not just coding, by reducing "toil" and allowing focus on high-level tasks. He uses "Skills," essentially cheat sheets for agents, to provide specific context like design systems or API documentation for faster, more accurate results. Customizations in Antigravity 2.0 enable extensions like Android CLI or Model Context Protocol servers for features like hot reloading. Davis compares code maintenance to Bonsai artistry, advocating for flat architectures that simplify agent guidance and human oversight. He tailors code reviews based on the task, focusing on visual output for marketing sites and API contracts for backend logic. Davis still writes code by hand to deepen his understanding of fundamental concepts. His personal website showcases offline content recommendations using Gemma 4 and vectorized summaries. A demo illustrated multi-agent parallelism where parallel sub-agents built and localized a full-stack app. The unbundling of the IDE from the Agent Manager offers workflow flexibility between desktop and server environments. Davis transforms documentation into reusable skills by parsing websites into markdown. He predicts a non-technical founder will launch a company using "vibe coding" by 2026, leading to new consulting roles addressing resulting production failures. Davis argues that poor codebase health, not context windows, is the primary bottleneck in AI development speed. He advises engineers to embrace AI for better communication handoffs, making code artifacts easily approvable. The era of agentic engineering demands increased architectural discipline, using agents as an orchestra to overcome "toil" and build future frameworks.