I've been trying out all the IDEs lately. Cursor, Claude, and the chat-based ones like the plain ChatGPT site and TypingMind. Recently I saw Google handing out pretty generous trials for Google One so you can try Antigravity, their code editor.

I've used Antigravity before and I know how fast and loose it can play with tools. I decided it really needed to be penned up.

Here's the gist of how to do that on Windows. You can do something similar with Proxmox, Linux, or whatever you prefer.

Set up the VM

Install the Hyper-V feature if you don't have it already. Then create a new VM and run Linux Mint Cinnamon on it. Ubuntu works too if that's your thing.

Inside the VM, install Antigravity and set up git. When you give this machine git access, use fine-grained tokens. Restrict them so the token can only write to certain repos or branches. You don't want this thing getting out and causing all kinds of havoc.

When it goes sideways

If the assistant goes a little crazy inside the machine and deletes all your files, it's no big deal. You have been keeping snapshots, right? Keep snapshots.