Press casts Cursor as exploiting GitHub frustration
7 Aug 18 6:14 PM · 7d ago · 1 article · 11 posts · 13 comments · 5 sources · development 7 of 7
TechCrunch and other outlets described Cursor as moving to capture developers frustrated with GitHub's outages and performance degradation, positioning Origin as a direct rival to the long-dominant platform.
“For as long as anyone can remember, GitHub has been the de facto code host preferred by a majority of developers.”
TechCrunch (via reposted summary)Cursor 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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I think the biggest value of choosing gitlab is the social network. I think federation is the right way, but it seems a mastodon vs linkedin problem. Would be good if there would be bridges between all those fediverses. A nice one is also ngit [0][0]
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It’s ironic that git is a distributed version control system but the first we did as a developer community was to centralize it around a service that goes down so much it has zero nines of availability. https:// venturebeat.com/infrastructure /cursor-launches-origin-code-hosting-platform-as-github-outage-exposes-opening-in-ai-coding-race
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Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, Git... #Techcrunch #breakingnews #news #othur
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Fascinating story: Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform
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Seems like a boring bet. The Github way of working is from the anthropocene era. We need new primitives for agents invokved in tech solutions. Pull requests? Issues? CI? They all seem like they'll go away. Cursor should be leading the new things that replace them.
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I just self-host Gitea. I made own build server (with all the SDK's I need) that runs next to it and I use SeaweedFS for storage. Works amazingly well. So I have automated builds and artifact storage for my git repos's. It all lighting fast too.
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I feel like using a service like this that's owned by SpaceX (and, therefore, in close proximity to X / Musk / etc) would be even more of a supply chain risk than GitHub occasionally going down.
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what does it mean that Origin was built for the era that code moves faster than infrastructure can handle? Is it just clickbait, or there's something fundamentally different about Origin?
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You're absolutely insane if you use this for private repos and do not expect you or your company's closed source code to be immediately queued to be ingested by an xAI model.
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A quick question: Where can I read your TOS, and other legal documents?Knowing things like: Will my code end up in Grok? What ownership do I have of my content, etc... matter.
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I'm a Forgejo user myself, but honestly reluctant and scouting alternatives since the activist Codeberg direction.
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Decentralized solutions invariably appeal to a narrow sliver of nerds but never gain popular acceptance.
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Feels like the more interesting trend is that Git itself is becoming an implementation detail.
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