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Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by treexs »

croes wrote: post #8
maherbeg wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a great name! It ties back to git nicely (git pull origin/main), and sounds human. Cursor was also a great name given that it evolved into an advanced AI assisted auto complete. I think their team does a solid job with naming.

Then google the names and look what comes up. Without additional search terms you get the wrong results. A word that is already used in computer is a bad name. And with AI it won’t get better. Ambiguity is a source of confusion and mistakes. By your logic pull/push/main are also great names. One main purpose of a name is distinguishability.

If you google Cursor they dominate the whole first page

Surely they have a chance of doing it again with Origin

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by halJordan »

jjcm wrote: post #10

I do wonder if calling this "Origin" is going to result in semantic misinterpretations by LLMs. Ie saying, > "hey can you push to origin main?" now has two separate meanings. A LLM may inadvertently push your code to a new provider without you knowing. It's walking a thin line between genius-growth-move and domain typosquatting.

Well you see, there's this thing called an embedding and it sits inside a vector space and when attention is applied it disambiguates

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by dbbk »

jjcm wrote: post #9
tomasreimers wrote: post #3

Hi all, my name is Tomas. I am one of the developers on Origin, and I was one of the founders of Graphite ( https://graphite.com ). Happy to answer any questions about Origin or source control in general!

What I don't understand from the blog post is what's different in this offering than github - is it just the agentic tie ins where I can ask my agent to make changes while browsing the PR? Are there any fundamental differences, ie ways of working that solve the worktrees problem?

There seems to be basically nothing new here

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by guywithahat »

This is very cool but there's no way they won't train on your private repos, in a way that github has been pleasantly respectful of. I have issues with github, but the recent uptime issues are more related to people uploading way more code due to AI than some sort of mismanagement.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by peterldowns »

jjcm wrote: post #9
tomasreimers wrote: post #3

Hi all, my name is Tomas. I am one of the developers on Origin, and I was one of the founders of Graphite ( https://graphite.com ). Happy to answer any questions about Origin or source control in general!

What I don't understand from the blog post is what's different in this offering than github - is it just the agentic tie ins where I can ask my agent to make changes while browsing the PR? Are there any fundamental differences, ie ways of working that solve the worktrees problem?

The idea is that it's like Github but it stays up even as your commit/CI frequency increases. As a customer I'm stoked and looking forward to fully switching over as that's exactly what I want.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by jmknoll »

tomasreimers wrote: post #3

Hi all, my name is Tomas. I am one of the developers on Origin, and I was one of the founders of Graphite ( https://graphite.com ). Happy to answer any questions about Origin or source control in general!

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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