Developers voice distrust of Cursor's ownership and AI custody of code
5 Aug 17 5:42 PM · 7d ago · 2 articles · 8 posts · 18 comments · 3 sources · development 5 of 7
HN commenters raised concerns about hosting source code with an AI company reportedly linked to Elon Musk and xAI's Grok, citing recent controversies, alongside broader worries about giving an AI agent custody of proprietary code.
“I'm not hosting my code with a company that creates child porn:”
grandpajoeyCursor AI coding company launching OriginGitHub Incumbent code-hosting platformElon Musk / xAI Reported owner tied to Cursor, cited by critics@mehedih_ Developer critic on X
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2 outlets Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race
first by VentureBeat, 7d ago · also HN Frontpage
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I really hope more people would use Tangled (https://tangled.org/)You get: - Self hosting your git hosting (if you want) - Self hosting your issues/PRs (if you want) - Self hosting your CI (if you want) - Github-like social features (I have one account, I can follow, star, add issues and PRs to any repo on tangled) It's built on ATProto, so even…
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🤣 Oh look, another riveting novel-length # documentation on # cursors , because clearly, we all have nothing better to do than memorize the encyclopedia of "Subagents" and "Bugbots"! 🐜🤖 I'm sure those "Security Agents" will protect us from the horrors of accidental command palette usage. 🙄💻 https:// cursor.com/docs/origin # HackerNews #…
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Having an AI company host your source code is giving your source code to an untrustworthy agent who might break their sandbox and might use your source code to accomplish a task that they have been given in their testing ground, for testing purposes only, that would definitely positively not ever be used for non-testing purposes.
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Cursor Origin - https:// cursor.com/docs/origin # hackernews
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All AI companies are valued as if they'll win the AI race. Problem is, only one can win ** That is, if a lab like Deepseek doesn't release a "good enough" model for the cost of electricity + a thin margin. Then all AI company lose and all consumers win.
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This is a good start. You can connect it to 3rd party apps to do CI Runners, etc. Hoping it develops quickly and becomes more fleshed out.The main limitation right now is that to share the code with anyone outside your Cursor organization, you need to sync it with GitHub.
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What's the biggest differentiator to GitHub (other than uptime). I keep hearing something along the lines of "GitHub for Agents" but would be great to hear from the devs of Origin what they actually think it means in tangible features/functionality?
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"Legacy Privacy Mode disables code storage, so you can't set up a Codebase. Switch to a different privacy mode below to continue." The only other privacy mode is to share data for Cursor to do training.All your codebases are belong to us.
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Vibe coders rejoice! Vibe coding is even easier now =)Jokes aside, this is a smart move by Cursor. As you can probably tell by the comments here, it's not for the experienced developers, but it will be a natural choice for vibe coders.
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Cursor is allegedly worth $60B. That is a higher market cap than Mercedes Benz group, which is profitable and has $144B revenue.But the website uses 100% CPU. And this is a beta for paid plans, not a GitHub alternative.
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Completely unrelated to Origin, but are there plans for closer integration of Graphite with Cursor? A combined product would be a very compelling product, but not much seems to have changed since the acquisition.
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I expected more than a GitHub clone, this is a bit of a let down.There's a lot of space to innovate around collaboration and version control in the age of agentic workflows.
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Are you interested in integrating with more CI platforms, including less "traditional" ones, like dagger.io? If so I would love to talk :)
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This completely fails to address one of the issues that people have with Github, which is the use of AI, whether you like it or not.
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If AI is involved it's a big "no, thanks" from me. Simply takes the problem and moves it down the street.
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How do you think does Microsoft start to do some thing better? At least cut slop form windows or put more effort in gh?
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I was waiting for an AI company to do this. The opportunity to disrupt Github is very apparent right now.
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Never going to try it, sorry for anyone at cursor who was excited about what they were working on.
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