From Feature Branches to Agent Branches ft. Antigravity

When people talk about AI coding tools, the conversation usually revolves around models, prompts, context windows, and agent capabilities. That’s usually what grabs the headlines. Yet the thing that caught my attention while using Antigravity wasn’t the AI at all. It was something completely unrelated to the recent AI boom and, in software development terms, almost dinosaur-age old. Rediscovering Worktrees Agent Branches in Action Under the Hood In Closing Rediscovering Worktrees Git worktrees aren’t new to me. In fact, I made a video about them back in 2021, calling them a better alternative to Git Stash. At the time, I viewed them as a handy Git feature for juggling multiple pieces of work without constantly stashing and unstashing changes. Useful, certainly, but not something I reached for every day. That perspective started to change when I noticed Antigravity exposing worktrees directly in its interface. Instead of burying them behind terminal commands, it treated them as a…